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Ram Dass Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: self reflection, Self love
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass, Be Here Now
Tagged: Life, Peace, Silence
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
— Ram Dass, One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
Tagged: Suffering, persevering, enduring, Experience, Living, Life
“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.”
— Ram Dass, On Judgment of Others
Tagged: Perspective, Judgment
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”
— Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
Tagged: Desire, Perspective
“The only thing you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Being, State Of Being
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Spiritual Journey, Spiritual Transformation, You Are Enough
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Being, Love, Giving, Receiving
“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.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Faith In Humanity, humanity
“And every time you step back from your own melodrama, the cosmic humor gets higher and higher.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Happiness, Deleting The Negative
“As you progress along the spiritual path you become less and less excited about collecting the melodrama ...”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Spiritual Journey, Awakening
“Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Grace, Love, Awareness, Being
“We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: desires, Transformation, Enlightenment, Suffering
“I think that part of [less self judgment] is observing oneself more impersonally.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Self Judgement, Observation
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: self reflection, Self love, Self Care
“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Love And Compassion, Transforming The World, purpose
“What we’re seeing ‘out there’ is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, Perspective
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
— Ram Dass
Tagged: Heart And Mind
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
— Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
Tagged: Uncoditional love
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