Ram Dass - Time Quotes

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Ask Yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here.
Ask Yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now.
Say it until you can hear it.

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The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

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Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.

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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

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When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

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During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,
"Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I..."
And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."
Silence.
And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"
And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."
I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting..."
"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean."

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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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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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You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

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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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