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

Ram Dass

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
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
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
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
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Break Up Life Stars Togetherness World Yourself
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
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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Action Mindset Moments Oneself Ourselves World
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
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
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Dance Fear Love Ourselves Reflection
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking 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
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Deep End Knowledge Wisdom
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves

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

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