Ram Dass Quotes

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

I love everybody. Even George Bush.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

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

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.