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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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• You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

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  Long, Shining, Mind

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

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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• One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

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  Ego, Doubt, Path

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.177, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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• Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

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  Real, Lying, Consciousness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Acceptance

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

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  World, Want, Cures

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

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  Letting Go, Can Not

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• When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

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  Character, Suffering, Depth

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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

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.18, Bantam

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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

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.52, Harmony

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