"I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being."
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"Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence."
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"What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death."
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"I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day."
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"Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this"
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"Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand."
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"I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love."
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"From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you."
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"The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair."
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"There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe."
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"Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home."
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"At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana."
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"Suffering brings me so close to God."
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"You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional."
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"I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth."
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"When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification."
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"I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God."
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"You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is."
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"My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."
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"I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives."
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