Top 357 Quotes & Sayings by Ram Dass - Page 5

Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

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.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

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.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

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

There are no accidents.

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.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.

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.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

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

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

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.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.