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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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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
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
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
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
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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Human Identity Ourselves Relationship
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
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Deep Game Philosophy
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
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
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
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
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
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
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

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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