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.
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’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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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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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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