If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
RAM DASSThe 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.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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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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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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