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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

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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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Change Identify Story
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
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
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
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
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
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Deep Existence Greatness Journey Ocean Truth
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
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
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Philosophy Secret Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
Just relax and trust the process.
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Future Inspirational Success Trust
There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
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
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
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
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
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
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
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
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Heart Trust Yourself
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

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