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I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
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If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, "Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage." You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.
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Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.
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I thought at that moment, "Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being — I'm just an inner self — all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever."
But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. I was talking about how I "experienced" this thing, because I was back being that anxiety-neurotic, in a slightly milder form, but still, my old personality was sneaking back up on me.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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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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Born:
April 6, 1931
Died:
December 22, 2019
(aged 88)
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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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