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  Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

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  Heart, Fundamentals, World

  "The Ram Dass interview: Smiling as he teaches about ‘Polishing the Mirror’". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com.

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

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  Life, Creativity, Creative

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

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  Self Esteem, Esteem, Who You Are

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.1, 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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• When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

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  Heart, Mirrors, Practice

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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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• 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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• Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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