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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.”
― ram dass

“When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.”
― Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”
― ram dass

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice