Ram Dass Quotes
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Old age spiritualizes people naturally
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You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.
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Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
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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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Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.
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After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.
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I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.
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I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.
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The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.
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We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.
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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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If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.
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I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.
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All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!
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I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.
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The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.
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The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
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I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
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Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
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Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
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The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
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