Ram Dass Inspires

"We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them."

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"We're all just walking each other home."
 

 

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." 

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the 

 

"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight."
 

 

 

"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, 

 

"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."
 

 

 

 

 

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

 

"The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."
 

 

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

 

"Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them."
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"Treat everyone you meet like God in drag."
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"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody."
 

 

"We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness"
 

 

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

 

"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another."
 

 

"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own t

 

"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering."
 

 

"Be here now."
 

 

"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."
 

 

 

"I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people."
 

 

"Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with 

 

"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life."
 

 

"Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.
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"Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings."
 

 

"By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another."
 

 

"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough."

"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."

"The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it."

"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control."

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