Ram Dass Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ram Dass
Ram Dass Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this
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.
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.
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back;
but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
We're being trained through our incarnations
trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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.
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.
If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.
Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.
All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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.
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.
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.
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion
and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.
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.
You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.