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

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.

A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

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

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.