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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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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
As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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Heart Philosophy Yourself
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
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Mystery Religion
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Fundamental Law Mindset Myself Understand
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
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Heart Trust Yourself
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Moments Philosophy
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
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
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
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet Yourself
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
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
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Deep Game Philosophy
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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God See Truth
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
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
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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