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> [“Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/our-unconscious-ideals-cause-us-to-sacrifice-our-true-lives-to-a/)

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## More by Stephen Cope

> [“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/the-goal-of-human-life-says-ramakrishna-is-to-meet-god-face-to-face/)

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> [“longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/longing-for-our-idealized-images-of-life-separates-us-from-our-true/)

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> [“There is a certain kind of action that leads to freedom and fulfillment,” Krishna begins. “A certain kind of action that is always aligned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/there-is-a-certain-kind-of-action-that-leads-to-freedom-and/)

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> [“I understood that the attachment to myself and my image ... was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/i-understood-that-the-attachment-to-myself-and-my-image-was-actually/)

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> [“The feminine comes to us in nature. Go outside. Look at the amazing waves of green, of lilacs, of blue mountains. We are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/the-feminine-comes-to-us-in-nature-go-outside-look-at-the-amazing/)

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> [“Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of "union" - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/many-of-us-ordinary-folk-have-tasted-these-moments-of-union-on-the/)

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> [“Quoting from Phillip Moffitt Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? The most profound change I’m aware of just now is a growing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/quoting-from-phillip-moffitt-will-yoga-and-meditation-really-change/)

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> [“Around his celestial home Indra had flung a vast net—a web stretching out infinitely in all directions. Each vertex, or node, of this net…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/around-his-celestial-home-indra-had-flung-a-vast-net-a-web-stretching/)

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> [“Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/quoting-from-thomas-merton-dialogues-with-silence-the-true/)

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> [“How important was mantra to Gandhi’s transformation? Extremely. When done systematically, mantra has a powerful effect on the brain. It gathers and focuses the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/how-important-was-mantra-to-gandhi-s-transformation-extremely-when/)

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> [“Our unconscious ideals cause us to sacrifice our true lives to a beautiful chimera, a haunting dream, a compelling illusion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-cope/our-unconscious-ideals-cause-us-to-sacrifice-our-true-lives-to-a/)

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