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Ram Dass Quotes & Sayings

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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself. — Ram Dass

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. — Ram Dass

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push ... You live, you help. — Ram Dass

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego. — Ram Dass

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other. — Ram Dass

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough. — Ram Dass

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in. — Ram Dass

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible. — Ram Dass

Old age spiritualizes people naturally — Ram Dass

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love. — Ram Dass

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this — Ram Dass

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. — Ram Dass

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me. — Ram Dass

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace. — Ram Dass

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way. — Ram Dass

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you. — Ram Dass

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times — Ram Dass

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do. — Ram Dass

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. — Ram Dass

I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got. — Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions. — Ram Dass

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it
just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass

The fun is having friends who help each other get free. — Ram Dass

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people. — Ram Dass

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God. — Ram Dass

I'm ensconced in the soul ... and I look around and everything is love. — Ram Dass

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. — Ram Dass

the journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth — Ram Dass

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. — Ram Dass

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one. — Ram Dass

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives. — Ram Dass

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. — Ram Dass

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment. — Ram Dass

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. — Ram Dass

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are. — Ram Dass

The Ego ages ... the Soul evolves ... and to the Awareness, nothing happened! — Ram Dass

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun. — Ram Dass

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated. — Ram Dass

I can go all over the world with Skype. — Ram Dass

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. — Ram Dass

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms. — Ram Dass

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. — Ram Dass

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace. — Ram Dass

Don't compare your path with anybody else's. Your path is unique to you. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes. — Ram Dass

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart. — Ram Dass

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

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is ... — Ram Dass

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. — Ram Dass

The gift you offer another person is just your being. — Ram Dass

We're all just walking each other home. - RAM DASS — Parvati Markus

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. — Ram Dass

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman. — Ram Dass

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. — Ram Dass

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass

Don't take yourself so personally. — Ram Dass

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. — Ram Dass

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. — Ram Dass

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.
It takes one to know one! — Ram Dass

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. — Ram Dass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. — Ram Dass

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom. — Ram Dass

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you? — Ram Dass

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind. — Ram Dass

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free. — Ram Dass

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were. — Ram Dass

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really? — Ram Dass

If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass

Inspiration is God making contact with itself. — Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death. — Ram Dass

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe. — Ram Dass

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana. — Ram Dass

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions. — Ram Dass

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. — Ram Dass

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God. — Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. — Ram Dass

you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS — Ram Dass

The next message you need is always right where you are. — Ram Dass

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer. — Ram Dass

Remember, Be Here Now. — Ram Dass

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag. — Ram Dass

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution. — Ram Dass

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass

When you live in love
You see love everywhere you look.
You are literally in love with everyone you look at. — Ram Dass

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. — Ram Dass

Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home. — Ram Dass

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes. — Ram Dass

Maharajji would quote Kabir: It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart. — Ram Dass