Ram Dass Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

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  Letting Go, Growth, Difficult

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.7, Harmony

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

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  Acceptance, Family Love, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

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  Mean, Being In Love, Love Is

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

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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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 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

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.183, Bantam

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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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  Independent, Circles, People

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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

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.39, Sounds True

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• As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

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  Love, Thinking, Loving Someone

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.27, Harper Collins

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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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