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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Ram Dass

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Compassionate Lie Life Love Myself
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
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
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
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
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual 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
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Mystery Religion
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
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Action Mindset Moments Oneself Ourselves World
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
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
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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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself

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