Ram Dass on love
Ram Dass100 quotes“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.
Ram DassRam Dass When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram DassRam Dass Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
Ram DassRam Dass Just relax and trust the process.
Ram DassRam Dass In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
Ram DassRam Dass When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
Ram DassRam Dass Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
Ram DassRam 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.
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Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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The time to bet on yourself is now.
Ine GraceIne Grace Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
Edith SteinEdith Stein I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.
David BeckhamDavid Beckham I saw beautiful things when I met you.
A. DimitriA. Dimitri It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls WilderLaura Ingalls Wilder We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker’s marvellous love so fully.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Simone WeilSimone Weil The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
Aretha FranklinAretha Franklin