As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
RAM DASSDon’t think about the past. Just be here now.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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All 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
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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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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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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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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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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.
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