Ram Dass Quotes

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

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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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.
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Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them. I love them to death!

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That’s all I do all day.