What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
RAM DASSCosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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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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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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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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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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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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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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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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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You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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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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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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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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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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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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