Ram Dass Quotes

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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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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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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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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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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

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