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.
RAM DASSGrace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Just relax and trust the process.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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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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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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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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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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