The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
RAM DASSLet’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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The 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.
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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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.
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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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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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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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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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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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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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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