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AKA: | Richard Alpert |
Birthday: | April 6, 1931 |
Birthplace: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S |
Educated At: | Stanford University, Tufts University, Wesleyan University |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | University Teacher, Academic, Psychologist, Writer |
Total quotes: 28
Ram Dass
BirthnameAKA: Richard Alpert
Birthday: April 6, 1931
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S
Educated At: Stanford University, Tufts University, Wesleyan University
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: University Teacher, Academic, Psychologist, Writer
Total quotes: 28
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
self reflection, Self love
“When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.”
Tagged:
Perspective, Judgment
“Your receiving mechanism isn’t tuned for that particular frequency.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Being, State Of Being
“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Religion And Spirituality
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
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Ram Dass
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Uncoditional love, Inner Being
“The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Being, State Of Being
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Faith In Humanity, humanity
“And every time you step back from your own melodrama, the cosmic humor gets higher and higher.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Happiness, Deleting The Negative
“As you progress along the spiritual path you become less and less excited about collecting the melodrama ...”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Spiritual Journey, Awakening
“We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”
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Ram Dass
“I think that part of [less self judgment] is observing oneself more impersonally.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Self Judgement, Observation
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
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Ram Dass
“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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Ram Dass
“What we’re seeing ‘out there’ is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.”
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Ram Dass
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
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Ram Dass
Tagged:
Heart And Mind
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