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

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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
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
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy Yourself
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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Identify Oneself Soul Yourself
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Easy God Heart Mindset
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
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
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
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
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
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Fall Oneself Rise
Just relax and trust the process.
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Future Inspirational Success Trust
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Listen Spiritual True
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
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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Flower Garden Person See Walk
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
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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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
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
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet Yourself

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

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