Ram Dass Quotes - Page 10

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

As one individual changes, the system changes.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

There are no accidents.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.