"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
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"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought."
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"That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person."
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"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."
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"As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power."
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"For what you do to others, you do to yourself."
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"...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of."
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"Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world."
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"Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time."
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"A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time."
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"Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom."
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"If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it."
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"This, too, will pass."
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"Being must be felt. It can't be thought."
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"You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone."
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"Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have."
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"Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity."
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"In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience."
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"Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move."
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"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."
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