What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
RAM DASSIt’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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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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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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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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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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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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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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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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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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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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