Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
RAM DASSIf you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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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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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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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.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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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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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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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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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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