Ram Dass Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.”
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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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“I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.”
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“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.”
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“Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.”
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“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
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“I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.”
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“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”
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“I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.”
-- Ram DassSource : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.
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“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”
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“I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.”
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“By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.”
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“I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.”
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“The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.”
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“When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.”
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“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”
-- Ram DassSource : Source: www.elle.com
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“I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.”
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“The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.”
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“Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.”
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“Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.”
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“Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.”
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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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“All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.”
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“We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."”
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“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.”
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“Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.”
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“After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.”
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