It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
RAM DASSThe Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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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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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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The 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.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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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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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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