Ram Dass Quotes

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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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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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Don't compare your path with anybody else's. Your path is unique to you.

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We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

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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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If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

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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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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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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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