The next message you need is always right where you are.
RAM DASSThe secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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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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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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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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The world is won by those who let it go.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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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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