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.
RAM DASSThe next message you need is always right where you are.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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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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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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