Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
RAM DASSEverything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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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.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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