Ram Dass Quotes

• If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

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  Responsibility, Peaceful, Want

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• Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

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  Belief, Hell, Has Beens

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• Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.

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  Heart, Animal, Clouds

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• Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation...

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  Heart, Mean, People

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• Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

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  Life, Spiritual, Use

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• If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

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  Acceptance, Family Love, Thinking

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• I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

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  Life, Lying, Compassion

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• The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.

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  Love You, Unconditional Love, Essence

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• So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

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  Spiritual, Jobs, Heart

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• The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
  
  In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
  
  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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  Flower, Heart, Garden

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• If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

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  World, Want, Cures

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• The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Unity

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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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  Spiritual, Truth, Yoga

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• The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

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  Pain, Attachment, Long

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  We're all just walking each other home.

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  Home, Brotherhood, Be Here Now

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• When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

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  Mourning, Emotion, Busy

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• Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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  Life, Stories, Actors

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• This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Keys

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• The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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• I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

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  Mean, Practice, People

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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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  Spiritual, Drama, Moments

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• Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

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  Drama, Humorous, Mellow

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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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  Hippie, Mean, Mind

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• The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

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  Taken, Dark, Night

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• Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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  Mind, Religion, Spirituality

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