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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

Ram Dass

When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Identify Live Present Time World
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
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Compassionate Lie Life Love Myself
Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking 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
Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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Judgement Ourselves Right Togetherness
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
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
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
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
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself

My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

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