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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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• The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Roots

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

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  Suffering, Doe, Sandpaper

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.79, Harmony

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• Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

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  Mean, Enemy, Moments

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• To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

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  Be Here Now, Explanation

  Ram Dass (2010). “Be Here Now”, p.17, Harper Collins

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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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• We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

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  Intuition, Receiving, Noise

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.142, Harmony

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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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• The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

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  Heart, Waiting, Soul

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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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• 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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• 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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• Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

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  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

  Ram Dass (2011). “Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

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• You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

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  Moving, Cutting, Mind

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• External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

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  Silence, Doorways

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.189, Harmony

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• I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

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  Used, Strokes, Used To Be

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