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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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The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.
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When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.
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So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.
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If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.
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If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.
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Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.
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We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.
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Don't compare your path with anybody else's. Your path is unique to you.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness.
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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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Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
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At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.
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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.
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Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.
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If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.
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So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.
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Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
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When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
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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.
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I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.
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Born:
April 6, 1931
Died:
December 22, 2019
(aged 88)
Bio:
Ram Dass was an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now.
Known for:
Be Here Now (1971)
Miracle of Love (1979)
Grist for the mill (1977)
Journey of awakening (1978)
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