Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
RAM DASSReligions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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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.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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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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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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