You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.
Ram DassI don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.
Ram DassProlong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this
Ram DassWhat the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
Ram DassThe offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
Ram DassThis is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.
Ram Dass