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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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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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Lying Mystery Religion
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet Yourself
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Desire Yourself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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Judgement Ourselves Right Togetherness
The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy See
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
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
When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Identify Live Present Time World
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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Age Identify People Practice Soul Spiritual
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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Growth Learning Time
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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Game Myself Philosophy Suffering Yourself
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel Yourself
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself

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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