It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
RAM DASSHealing 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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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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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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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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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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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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Just relax and trust the process.
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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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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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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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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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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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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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The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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