Ram Dass on experience
Ram Dass100 quotes“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.”
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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.
Ram DassRam Dass Just relax and trust the process.
Ram DassRam Dass In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
Ram DassRam Dass When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
Ram DassRam Dass Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
Ram DassRam Dass In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram DassRam Dass Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
Ram DassRam Dass What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram DassRam Dass Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram DassRam Dass Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram DassRam Dass Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
Ram DassRam Dass
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond Life is all about swinging between everything good and everything bad.
Saloni VermaSaloni Verma I’m afraid someday my words will run out so I spend every waking moment trying to capture the human experience in purple prose.
Bailey RaeBailey Rae For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes By far the best proof is experience.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Everything worth experiencing in life has the potential to break your heart.
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