If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
RAM DASSOur 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.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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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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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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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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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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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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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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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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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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