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 DASSIf you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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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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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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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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