As one individual changes, the system changes.
RAM DASSThe heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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Once 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.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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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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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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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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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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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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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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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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Our 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.
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