The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
RAM DASSWe’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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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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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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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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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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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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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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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