All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
RAM DASSThe Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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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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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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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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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.
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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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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.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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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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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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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.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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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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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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