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

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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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Flower Garden Person See Walk
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself
The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking 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
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Easy God Heart Mindset
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
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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God Healing Philosophy
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Deep End Knowledge Wisdom
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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