"Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire."
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"If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness."
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"I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing."
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"Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another."
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"There are no accidents."
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"It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness."
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"Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?"
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"When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love."
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"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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"The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present."
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"Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey."
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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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"You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment."
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"I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love."
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"Caring is a reflex...You live, you help."
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"Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents."
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"I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these together. Things like karma yoga, bhakti yoga, conscious dying, conscious aging. Consciousness."
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"I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul."
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"Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom."
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"Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me."
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