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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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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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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
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
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Mystery Religion
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
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy 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 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
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
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
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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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
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
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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