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.
RAM DASSAs long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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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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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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