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 DASSKnowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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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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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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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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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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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.
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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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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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