All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
RAM DASSAll spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
RAM DASSIt is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
RAM DASSWhen we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
RAM DASSWhen you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
RAM DASSEvery religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
RAM DASSYou two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
RAM DASSAs one individual changes, the system changes.
RAM DASSThe world is won by those who let it go.
RAM DASSThe 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 DASSThe most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
RAM DASSThe journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
RAM DASSIt’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.
RAM DASSWe’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
RAM DASSJust relax and trust the process.
RAM DASSWhose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
RAM DASSTrust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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