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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.

Ram Dass

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
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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God See Truth
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Easy God Heart Mindset
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
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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Journey Path Spiritual True
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Deep Game Philosophy
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
The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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Dance Deep Philosophy Spiritual Yourself
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Dance Fear Love Ourselves Reflection
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
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
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
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean

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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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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