Ram Dass on experience
Ram Dass100 quotes“Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”
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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.
Ram DassRam Dass The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram DassRam Dass My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
Ram DassRam Dass If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
Ram DassRam Dass We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
Ram DassRam Dass If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
Ram DassRam Dass As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
Ram DassRam Dass You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
Ram DassRam Dass Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
Ram DassRam Dass The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
Ram DassRam Dass By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
Ram DassRam Dass Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
Ram DassRam Dass The next message you need is always right where you are.
Ram DassRam Dass I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
Ram DassRam Dass I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
Ram DassRam Dass We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on experience
I know it’s an experience that I need to have if God’s putting me through it.
Lil WayneLil Wayne Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah I’ve also built my own business, and obviously it’s a brand that I’ve built and it’s wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it’s my company.
Ivanka TrumpIvanka Trump The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I’ve always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
Vera WangVera Wang We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
HafezHafez Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair
