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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

Ram Dass

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
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See
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
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Identify Live Present Time World
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet Yourself
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Compassionate Desire Heart Suffering
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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Heart Philosophy 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
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Enough Ourselves Spiritual Transformation
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel Yourself
All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
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Fall Oneself Rise
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

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

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