Ram Dass Quotes

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

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

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

There are no accidents.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

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

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

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

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

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

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

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

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

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

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.

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

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.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

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

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

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

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

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.

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

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

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.

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

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

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

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

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.