Ram Dass Quotes - Page 9

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.