Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
RAM DASS
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Ram Dass on distance
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
Ram DassRam Dass What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
Ram DassRam Dass There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
Ram DassRam Dass Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
Ram DassRam Dass Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
Ram DassRam Dass All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
Ram DassRam Dass It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
Ram DassRam Dass Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
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Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
Anthony of PaduaAnthony of Padua I wasn’t running away from you. I was running towards myself.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
Simone WeilSimone Weil I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.
Steve MaraboliSteve Maraboli Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
Robert GreeneRobert Greene Is there still time? or will we remain past tense.
JeroenJeroen It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self…I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.
Alexander FlemingAlexander Fleming The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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