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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

Ram Dass

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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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Compassionate Desire Heart Suffering
You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Break Up Life Stars Togetherness World Yourself
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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Flower Garden Person See Walk
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
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Deep Game Philosophy
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy Yourself
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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Game Myself Philosophy Suffering Yourself
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself
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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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
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 quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet Yourself

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