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

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  Letting Go, Can Not

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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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  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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• Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Data

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.53, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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