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.
RAM DASSYou may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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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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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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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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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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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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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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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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