Ram Dass - Mind Quotes

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After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

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Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

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What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at—the projection of the clingings of our minds.

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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

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He [Bhagwan Dass] wasn't the least bit interested in all of the extraordinary dramas that I had collected … He was the first person I couldn't seduce into being interested in all this. He just didn't care.
And yet, I never felt so profound an intimacy with another being. It was as if he were inside of my heart. And what started to blow my mind was that everywhere we went, he was at home.

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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, "Here we are." You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.

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When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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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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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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Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

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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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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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