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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More Ram Dass Quotes
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There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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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.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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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 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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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
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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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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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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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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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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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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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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