The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times