Ram Dass on philosophy
Ram Dass100 quotes“The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.”
Filed under
More from Ram Dass
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram DassRam Dass Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
Ram DassRam Dass What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram DassRam Dass Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram DassRam Dass Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram DassRam Dass Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
Ram DassRam Dass Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
Ram DassRam Dass 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
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
Ram DassRam Dass Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass
Original quotes
From our community writers
We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
Meet the writers
More on philosophy
The day I know who I am, why and how is known of me, I will be me, Me: free from thorns and petals that go round and round, in heads and heels, and would reveal me, me indeed!
Deepali SinghviDeepali Singhvi Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl PopperKarl Popper
