If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
RAM DASSAll 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
More Ram Dass Quotes
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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.
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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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.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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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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A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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