Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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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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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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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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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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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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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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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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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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