The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
RAM DASSWe’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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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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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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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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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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