Ram Dass quotes - page 4

I thought at that moment, Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being - I'm just an inner self - all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever. (Ram Dass)
I can go all over the world with Skype. View quote
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. View quote
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. View quote
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It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage. View quote
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But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. View quote
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I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. View quote
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A place where "I" existed independent of social and physical identity. View quote
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I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware! View quote
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We had gotten over the feeling that one experience was going to make you enlightened forever. View quote
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I understood the requirement of being "objective" for a scientist, but this is a most naive concept in social sciences as we are finding out. (Ram Dass)
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. View quote
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Be here now. View quote
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It was all my identities, all rolling in over me. View quote
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. View quote
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. View quote
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I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love. View quote
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We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness. View quote
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It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. View quote
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving. View quote
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Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound. (Ram Dass)
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. View quote
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Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this. View quote
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Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. View quote
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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way. View quote
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