As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
RAM DASSI see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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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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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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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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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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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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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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