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• Spirit is love, spirit is connection, inclusive, and that's what I'm interested in, and that's what moved me. That's what I got more and more into as I grew up and as I was in college in the 60's with consciousness raising and other kind of things, gestalt psychology etc.

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  College, Psychology, Connections

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.

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  Spiritual, Children, Differences

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they want to change, but it's not that simple, it's not that easy. Who's ready to change and give up? Who's ready to get out of their rut and leave it behind, not just pour honey or syrup over their heads and over the rut? Who's ready to change and give up that rut, who's ready willing and able?

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  Giving Up, Simple, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see.

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  Eye, Needs, Want

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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• Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

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  Compassion, Inability, Spirituality

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• Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be wrong, or maybe there's another way to look at it- that things are not what they seem to be, and that everything is subjective.

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  Believe, Looks, Way

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

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  Spiritual, Commitment, Miracle

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• So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

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  Important, World, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex.

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  Sex, Moving, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram Dass more Ram-like? Maybe... why not? We grow into our names. But why did my parents named me Jeffrey and my brother Michael? Who knows?

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  Brother, Names, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

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  Heart, Political, Isms

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.

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  Fighting, Buddhism, India

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think about a global spirituality. We need to make it very personal and transformative for one self, and each other, together for those who are interested.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

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  Unity, Doe, Half

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• I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and violence that we were prey to and involved in to some extent in those days.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Violence

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The heart is an organ of perception.

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  Heart, Perception, Organs

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• The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

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  Positive Thinking, Irritation, Principles

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• Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.

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  Children, Safety, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it, and things are as real as I think they. That's way too materialistic or substantialist, because things are not really what they seem to be.

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  Real, Thinking, Long

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.

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  Cooking, Sometimes, Grounding

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• Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the muse for poetry and writing and music. It's all part of the spirit and if we look particularly at Hinduism and Buddhism, the tantric stream of those traditions totally embraces all aspects of human life and life on this world.

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  Art, Writing, Buddhism

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think it's very important to really find the wheat amidst the chafe and not give into superficialities, to not get caught up the commercialism or the fads, you know, the "over-popularization" of some things that we might see today. That doesn't mean we have to throw out the Buddha with the bath water, it's not all bad.

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  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

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  Becoming, Realizing, Contradiction

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what's really intimate, that's the real spirit. And that's very personal, it's also transpersonal. It's not impersonal, it's beyond any of us, it's transcendent of any of us, yet imminent in dwelling, imminent to each of us.

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  Sex, Real, Moving

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.

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  Buddhist, Philosophy, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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