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 DASSThe 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 DASSAll spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
RAM DASSAcross planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
RAM DASSThe 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.
RAM DASSEvery religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
RAM DASSIf you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
RAM DASSThe journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
RAM DASSWe’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
RAM DASSYou may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
RAM DASSWhen your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
RAM DASSTo him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
RAM DASSEverything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
RAM DASSIn most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
RAM DASSI would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
RAM DASSEverything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
RAM DASSYou base your faith on experience, your faith is
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