Ram Dass Quotes

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

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.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

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.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

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

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

Don't take yourself so personally.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

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.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.