When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

There can be conscious revolution.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

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.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.