Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
RAM DASS
RAM DASS
Ram Dass on suffering
Ram Dass100 quotes“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
Ram DassRam Dass I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
Ram DassRam Dass A moment comes when other is no longer other.
Ram DassRam Dass The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram DassRam Dass Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
Ram DassRam Dass The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
Ram DassRam Dass I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
Ram DassRam Dass Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
Ram DassRam Dass Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
Ram DassRam Dass Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
Ram DassRam Dass As one individual changes, the system changes.
Ram DassRam Dass We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
Ram DassRam Dass Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
Ram DassRam Dass A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
Ram DassRam Dass Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
Ram DassRam Dass Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
James AllenJames Allen Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
James AllenJames Allen What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler Suffering is always the effect of wrong thoughts in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
James AllenJames Allen Human Beings Are Not Suffering Life, They’re Suffering Memory & Imagination.
SadhguruSadhguru Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.
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