When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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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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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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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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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.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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