If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

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 are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

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.