"When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful."
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"When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiritual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul."
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"If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients"
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"I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all."
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
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"It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos."
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"Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age."
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"My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy."
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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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"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."
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"Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it."
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"I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about."
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"Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out."
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"A moment comes when "other" is no longer other."
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"Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness."
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"You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul."
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"Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?"
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"Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times"
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"I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love."
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"The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness."
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