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  A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

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  Writing, Dark, Age

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

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  Inspirational, Clouds, Enlightenment

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• We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

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  Spiritual, Long, Mind

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

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  Caring, Arms, Helping

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• In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

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  Distance, Perspective, Mind

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• There can be conscious revolution.

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  Revolution, Conscious

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

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• I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

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  School, People, Psychology

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• When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

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  Giving, Guru, Command

  "Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". ORIGIN Magazine interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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• A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

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  Men, Imagination, Guru

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love everybody. Even George Bush.

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  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.

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  Ocean, Land, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Witness

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

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  People, Community, Despair

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