Ram Dass Quotes

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.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

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

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

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

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

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.

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

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

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

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

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

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.

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

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

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

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.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

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

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

The gift you offer another person is just your being.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

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

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

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.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

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

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

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.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.