Ram Dass Quotes

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

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.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

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

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

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

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

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

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

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

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.

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

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

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

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

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

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

Remember, Be Here Now.

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.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

There can be conscious revolution.

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

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.