Ram Dass Quotes

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It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

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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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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

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

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

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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

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Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

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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.

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Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

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

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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.

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We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it.

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

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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

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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.

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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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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.

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The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

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I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

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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.

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

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

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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

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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.

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The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

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

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

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

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In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

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