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Ram Dass Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“We as souls prepare our own births, deaths and in between.”
— Ram Dass, Ram Dass: We Are Awareness
Tagged: Holistic Mindset, Health, meditation, Retrospect
“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.”
— Ram Dass, via twitter.com
Tagged: Life, purpose, goal
“Do whatever you need to do, but never put someone out of your heart.”
— Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
Tagged: purpose, Love, Relationships, Goals
“When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.”
— Ram Dass, On Judgment of Others
Tagged: Perspective, Judgment
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
— Ram Dass, One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
Tagged: Suffering, persevering, enduring, Experience, Living, Life
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
— Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
Tagged: Desire, Perspective
“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”
— Ram Dass, via Tumblr
Tagged: Time, present, Life, Living
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
— Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
Tagged: Uncoditional love
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass, Be Here Now
Tagged: Life, Peace, Silence
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Heart And Mind
“What we’re seeing ‘out there’ is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, Perspective
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Love And Compassion, Transforming The World, purpose
“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.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Religion And Spirituality
“We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: desires, Transformation, Enlightenment, Suffering
“And every time you step back from your own melodrama, the cosmic humor gets higher and higher.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Happiness, Deleting The Negative
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Faith In Humanity, humanity
“Your receiving mechanism isn’t tuned for that particular frequency.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Being, State Of Being
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: self reflection, Self love, Self Care
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Freedom, Free Soul, Free
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Being, Love, Giving, Receiving
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Spiritual Journey, Spiritual Transformation, You Are Enough
“Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Grace, Love, Awareness, Being
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Uncoditional love, Inner Being
“I think that part of [less self judgment] is observing oneself more impersonally.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Self Judgement, Observation
“The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Being, State Of Being
“As you progress along the spiritual path you become less and less excited about collecting the melodrama ...”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Spiritual Journey, Awakening
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: self reflection, Self love
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Optimism In The Face of Uncertainty
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