Ram Dass Quotes - Page 7

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.