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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Ram Dass

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.
RAM DASS

Game Myself Philosophy Suffering Yourself
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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Control Growth Yourself
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel Yourself
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
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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Journey Listen Spiritual True
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
RAM DASS

Journey Path Spiritual True
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
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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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
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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Dance Deep Philosophy Spiritual Yourself
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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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Enough Ourselves Spiritual Transformation
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Identify Live Present Time World
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Myself See
As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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Heart Philosophy Yourself
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Philosophy Secret Yourself
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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Early Journey Life Stop Yourself
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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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Inspirational Right Yourself
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual

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