Rama Quotes

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

I leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility, because I was quite egotistical, I thought I was quite wonderful.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness