Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

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.

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.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.