"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough."
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"So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff."
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"The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all."
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"This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost."
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"Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness."
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"The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing."
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"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."
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"The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc…and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally."
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"You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love."
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"We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!"
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"The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end."
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"Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right."
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"The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes."
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"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us."
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"My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that."
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"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life."
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"One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away."
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"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean."
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"Don't think about the past. Just be here now."
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"Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism."
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