It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
RAM DASSMeditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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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 resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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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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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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