In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
RAM DASSEarly in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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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.
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