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  The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

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  Ego, Deny, Preoccupation

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• True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

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  Compassion, Consciousness, Arise

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.81, Sounds True

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• Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

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  Heart, Exercise, People

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• You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Meditation

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• Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

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  Fear, Love And Fear, Interaction

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.220, Harmony

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• In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

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  Yesterday, Our Relationship, Used

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.214, Harmony

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• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

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  Inspiration, Awareness, Contact

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• You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

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  Moving, Reality, World

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.27, Harmony

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• I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

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  Heart, Thinking, Games

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• If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Silence

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• Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

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  Pain, Mind

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

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  Exercise, Earth, Clock

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• When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

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  Practice, Ego, Soul

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• My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

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  Heart, Skills, Mind

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

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  Wisdom, Work, Believe In Yourself

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• I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

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  Hate, Heart, Fighting

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• In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

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  Compassion, Joy, Soul

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, creativeguide.com. 2013.

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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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  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

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  Life, Opportunity, Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.73, Harmony

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• Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

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  Eye, Waiting, Longing

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.48, Sounds True

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• If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

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  Struggle, Being Positive, Needs

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• After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

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  Inspirational, Humble, Journey

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• The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

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  Soul, Done, Not Afraid

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, creativeguide.com. 2013.

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• If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

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  Peace, World, Where You Are

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.205, Harmony

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• My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

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  Life, Creativity, Creative

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