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 DASSIt is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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The 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.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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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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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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