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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

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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Myself Oneself Relationship See Spiritual Yourself
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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Dance Deep Philosophy Spiritual Yourself
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth 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
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Dance Fear Love Ourselves Reflection
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life
The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy See
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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Change Identify Story
Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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Judgement Ourselves Right Togetherness
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Enjoyment Lost Philosophy
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Desire Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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Lying Mystery Religion
I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Growth Myself Self Love Yourself
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
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Attitude Character Ourselves Suffering

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