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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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  Wise, Spiritual, Order

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• When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

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  Inspiring, Guru, Know How

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• As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

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  Fall, Compassion, People

  "Exclusive Interview With Ram Dass". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

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  Ego, Soul, Cracks

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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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  Pain, Heart, Caring

  Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.211, Knopf

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• Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Grace

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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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  Spiritual, Heart, Compassion

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• The next message you need is always right where you are.

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  Live In The Moment, Next, Messages

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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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  Love, Attitude, Flower

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.47, Harmony

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• The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

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  Perfect, Desire, World

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• At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

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  Ego, Who We Are, Moments

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• Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.

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  Moving, Wake Up, Patient

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• In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

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  Life, Secret, Listening

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.69, Harmony

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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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• Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

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  Past, Thinking, Be Here Now

  Ram Dass (2010). “Be Here Now”, p.27, Harper Collins

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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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• Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

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  Freedom, Attachment, Suffering

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• As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

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  People, Suffering, Looks

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.15, Bantam

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• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

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  Inspiration, Awareness, Contact

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• The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

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  Moving, Mountain, Persons

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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