Ram Dass Quotes

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

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  Topics in Life, Love, Work

  Tags in Compassion, Statement

• We are all just walking each other home.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Walking

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Righteousness, Judging

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Like

• What you meet in another being is the projection of your own evolution.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evolutionary, Being

• What we’re seeing ‘out there’ is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clinging

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Spend, Enlightened

• When we see the beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Flowers, Garden

• The gift you offer another person is just your being.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Being, Person

• Emptiness is not really empty; Emptiness is full of everything. The ‘everything’ just isn’t manifest.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emptiness, Manifest

• Once you get to your soul, then every person you look at is a soul.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Person, Once

• Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Stability, Provides

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identify, Story

• The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Advice, Life

  Tags in Become

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Aversion, Feeling

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

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Transformation

• We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fascinated, Silence

• Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize, Point

• Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Program, Suffering

• Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

  Ram Dass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Holding, Problem

Ram Dass (26)

Birth:	6th April, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Ram Dass is an American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He continues to teach via his website.

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