"A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done."
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"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here."
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"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it."
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"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"
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"Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?"
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"Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it."
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"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not."
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"Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery."
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"All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion."
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"So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself."
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"When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?"
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"Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell."
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"It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily."
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"The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all."
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"The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being."
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"Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God."
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"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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"When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't."
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