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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.

Ram Dass

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel Yourself
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 think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking 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
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Dance Fear Love Ourselves Reflection
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
Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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Act Important Love Moments Ourselves

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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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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