The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
RAM DASSSpiritual 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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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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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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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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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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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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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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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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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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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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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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