Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

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

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

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.

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 meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.