The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
RAM DASSI didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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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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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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Spiritual 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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Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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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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There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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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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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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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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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 next message you need is always right where you are.
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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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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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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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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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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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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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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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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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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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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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