Early 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.
RAM DASSSpiritual 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.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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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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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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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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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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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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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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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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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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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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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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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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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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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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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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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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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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