Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
RAM DASSWe’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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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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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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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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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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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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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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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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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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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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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