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.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

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.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.