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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Ram Dass

It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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Difficult Growth Hard Investment Let Go Ourselves
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Philosophy Secret Yourself
There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
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Control Growth Yourself
Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
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Early Journey Life Stop Yourself
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Path Spiritual True
A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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Live Love Relationship Start
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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Human Identity Ourselves Relationship
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
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Action Mindset Moments Oneself Ourselves World
When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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Company Faith Inspirational Strong Yourself
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Grace Love Spiritual
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual

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