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Richard Alpert
1931-2019 • American
American spiritual teacher who journeyed from Harvard psychology professor to beloved guru. Author of Be Here Now, he taught loving awareness and devotional service.
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“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
“The next message you need is always right where you are.”
“Once you get into knowing how to listen, the universe is sending information all the time.”
“Your problem is you're too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.”
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated.”
“Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides.”
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
“It is only through love that we can come to know each other.”
“All spiritual practice is really about letting go.”
“Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”
“The most exquisite paradox: as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.”
“As long as you hold on to wanting something from another, you keep yourself from full appreciation of what they are.”
“The game is not about becoming somebody. It's about becoming nobody.”
“In the end, we will not remember the most beautiful sights, but the most beautiful days.”
“Aging brings a new lens through which to see what we have always seen.”
“Your work is to live your life in such a way that you can use this incarnation to come closer to truth.”
“Be here now.”
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