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We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

Ram Dass
Spiritual, Long, Mind
Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Ram Dass
Caring, Arms, Helping

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

Ram Dass
Distance, Perspective, Mind
Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

There can be conscious revolution.

Ram Dass
Revolution, Conscious
Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

Ram Dass
School, People, Psychology

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

Ram Dass
Games, Splits, Revolution
Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Ram Dass
Giving, Guru, Command
"Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". ORIGIN Magazine interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.

Ram Dass
Ocean, Land, People
Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Ram Dass
Men, Imagination, Guru
Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I love everybody. Even George Bush.

Ram Dass
Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

Ram Dass
Spiritual, Soul, Witness
Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

Ram Dass
People, Community, Despair
Source: www.douglasgillies.com

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

Ram Dass
Spiritual, Alive, Pool
"Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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