Ram Dass Quotes - Page 11

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

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.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

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

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. 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.

The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn't matter, because those are paths. They're paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say - heart to heart - that's what satsang is.