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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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• 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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• Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.

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  Moving, Wake Up, Patient

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

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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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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• Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

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  Religion, Spirituality, Be Here Now

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.13, 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

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  Grace, Suffering, Path

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

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  Life, Spiritual, Use

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.66, Harmony

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• The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free.
  We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.

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  Mean, Sleep, Light

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• 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

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.49, Sounds True

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

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  Real, Lying, Consciousness

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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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