Ram Dass on experience
Ram Dass100 quotes“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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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Ram DassRam Dass Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
Ram DassRam Dass Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
Ram DassRam Dass I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
Ram DassRam Dass A moment comes when other is no longer other.
Ram DassRam Dass The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram DassRam Dass Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
Ram DassRam Dass The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
Ram DassRam Dass I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
Ram DassRam Dass Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
Ram DassRam Dass Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
Ram DassRam Dass Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
Ram DassRam Dass As one individual changes, the system changes.
Ram DassRam Dass We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I’m expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.
Patrick Mahomes IIPatrick Mahomes II What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
Lady GagaLady Gaga We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
Major Dick WintersMajor Dick Winters Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
Sharon SalzbergSharon Salzberg The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
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