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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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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
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
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Moments Philosophy
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Listen Spiritual True
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
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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Attitude Different Live Soul
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word 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
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
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
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation 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
Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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Experience Explanation Himself Necessary Possible
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
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
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
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
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

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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