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 DASSYou two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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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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Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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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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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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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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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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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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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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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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