In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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It’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.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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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.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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The 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.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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