When one is surrounded by disorientation or loss of others' sanity, the method to keep one's center is to stop picking unnecessary battles, learn which ones can be won, and for those one cannot avoid, treat them as curriculum for awakening rather than as evidence of defeat.

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Speaker

Ram Dass

Evidence Quote

you usually do is you pick battles you can win now and then and you don't go near the really heavy things unless you have to and if you have to go near them you usually drown for a while and then you sputter to life again [1:57:08]

Source

The Miracle of Consciousness - Ram Dass Full Lecture 1996Baba Ram Dass
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