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  The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

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  Death, Learning, Ego

  Ram Dass (2011). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.95, Random House

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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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  We're all just walking each other home.

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  Home, Brotherhood, Be Here Now

  "The Ram Dass interview: Smiling as he teaches about ‘Polishing the Mirror’". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. July 14, 2013.

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• Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

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  Freedom, Journey, Involved

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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

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

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  Air, Environment, Come Up

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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  Wise, World Suffering, Training

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Harmony

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• Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here.
  Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now.
  Say it until you can hear it.

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  Answers, Asks

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

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• Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

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  Letting Go, Can Not

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• Old age spiritualizes people naturally

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  People, Age, Old Age

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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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• The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

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  Heart, Judging, Live In The Moment

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.37, Harmony

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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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  Struggle, Years, Passive Resistance

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• If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

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  Heart, Mind, Way

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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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• The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

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  Perfect, Desire, World

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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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• 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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• Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

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  Unique, Purpose, Path

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.

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  Soul, Flow, Natural

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.128, Bantam

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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

  "Ram Dass on Self Judgment", www.ramdass.org. January 25, 2012.

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