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?
RAM DASSKnowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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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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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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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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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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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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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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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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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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