Ram Dass Quotes

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

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

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

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.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.