Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
RAM DASSMeditation raises the question: Who are we really?
More Ram Dass Quotes
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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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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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
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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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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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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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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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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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