Ram Dass Quotes

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
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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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
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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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Inspirational Right Yourself
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Myself See
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
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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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
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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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
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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Attitude Different Live Soul
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Compassionate Desire Heart Suffering
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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God Healing Philosophy
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Enjoyment Lost Philosophy
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Easy God Heart Mindset
Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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Myself Oneself Relationship See Spiritual Yourself
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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Control Growth Yourself
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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Company Faith Inspirational Strong Yourself
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Desire Yourself
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself
It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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Difficult Growth Hard Investment Let Go Ourselves
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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Growth Learning Time
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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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
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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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself
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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Journey Listen Spiritual True

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