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.
RAM DASSOnce you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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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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