"Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!"
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"Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear."
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"Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives."
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"If you think you are free, there is no escape possible."
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"The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles."
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"The fun is having friends who help each other get free."
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"If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing."
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"I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves."
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"The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!"
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"I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me."
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"The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart."
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"I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?"
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"If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine."
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"I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself."
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"By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy."
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"Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices."
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"We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other."
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"Compassion is the ability to see how it all is."
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