Ram Dass Quotes - Page 6

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.