Ram Dass Quotes - Page 4

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

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

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru