Ram Dass on knowledge
Ram Dass100 quotes“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
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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.
Ram DassRam Dass Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
Ram DassRam Dass A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
Ram DassRam Dass Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz You’ve got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You’ve got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Knowing “why” (an idea) is more important than learning “what” (the fact).
James WatsonJames Watson If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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