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  We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

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  Live Life, Meditation, Caves

  Interview with Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com. The late 1980's.

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• Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

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  Journey, Long, Asking

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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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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  Spiritual, Drama, Moments

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• We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

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  Age, Way, Reap

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.107, Harmony

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• It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

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  Rip, Butterfly, Done

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• Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

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  Change, Thinking, Differences

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.8, Harmony

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• This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

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  Acceptance, Compassion, People

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.107, Harmony

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• Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

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  Opposites, Unity, Consciousness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.133, Harmony

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• Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.

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  Beautiful, Art, Loneliness

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• If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

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  Reality, Creating, Mind

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• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness.

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  Oneness, Together, Entrances

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

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  Space, Soul, Infinity

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, parabola.org. May 18, 2017.

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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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  Honor, Way, Belief

  "How To Be 'In The Moment' This Holiday Season" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

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  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.

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• The gift you offer another person is just your being.

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  Offers, Persons

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.187, Harmony

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• Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation

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  Important, Dying, Moments

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• These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

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  Thinking, Two, Ego

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

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• If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

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  Oneness, People, Needs

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

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• What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

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  Life, Mind, Clinging

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.25, Harmony

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• Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

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  Fearless, Culture, Incredibles

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.109, Harmony

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• A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

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  Doe, Awareness, Liberated

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.8, Bantam

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• I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

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  Spiritual, Acceptance, Who I Am

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• When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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  Heart, Mind, Easier

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• The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

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  Letting Go, Drama, Offering

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• I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

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  Work, Creativity, Men

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