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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Mystery Religion
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
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth 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
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Attitude Character Ourselves Suffering
It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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Difficult Growth Hard Investment Let Go Ourselves
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
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
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
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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God Healing Philosophy
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
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Growth Myself Self Love Yourself
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel 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
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
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Inspirational Right 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

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