We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
RAM DASS
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Ram Dass on light
Ram Dass100 quotes“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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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
Ram DassRam Dass What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram DassRam Dass Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram DassRam Dass Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
Ram DassRam Dass The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
Ram DassRam Dass Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
Ram DassRam Dass All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
Ram DassRam Dass We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
Ram DassRam Dass I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
Ram DassRam Dass Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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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 light
She reminds me of sunflowers when she faced the light she bloomed.
Rhiannon JanaeRhiannon Janae It’s as if you like the way the pain lights in my eyes.
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana I am learning to hold to hopeful light.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign He didn’t appreciate my light until he knew how dark it can get after the sun has set.
CindyCindy At night when I can’t sleep, I imagine I’m a sunflower trying to find the light to nourish my growth.
Rhiannon JanaeRhiannon Janae In light of recent events can you tell me where to find the light?
Celine ZabadCeline Zabad Sky; a map of constellations intertwined with dark and light.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett You are living a fleeting experience that you call life, you settle for short-term happiness moving away from light.
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