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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Fundamental Law Mindset Myself Understand
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
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
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
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
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
A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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Live Love Relationship Start
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Deep End Knowledge Wisdom
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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Force Myself Nature Reality Transformation World Yourself
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
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
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
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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Lying Mystery Religion
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Enough Ourselves Spiritual Transformation
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
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself

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