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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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Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
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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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The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.
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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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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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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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Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
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In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
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Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.
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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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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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