When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
RAM DASSTreat everyone you meet like God in drag.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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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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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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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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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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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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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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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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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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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