"Acknowledge the feelings and allow them and see them as part of the human condition. They are like subtle thought forms. Emotions are really subtle thought forms. And they all arise in response to something. They are reactions that come. ...you can feel how reactive your emotions are to situations. ... So you cultivate a quietness in yourself that just watches these things coming and going and arising and passing away. And you learn not to act out your emotions, but just to appreciate and allow them. That’s part of the way in which you use them spiritually." ~Ram Dass
"Anything you do with attachment creates more desire, keeping you in the game and illusion longer. Once you see through that it all falls away." ~Ram Dass
"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, Love Serve Remember
"Being love, rather than taking or giving love, is the only thing that provides stability." ~Ram Dass
"By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another." ~Ram Dass
"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the cast calm ocean." ~Ram Dass
"Everything in your life, there is a vehicle for your transformation. Use it." ~Ram Dass
“Everything you’re doing in life is part of an extraordinarily beautiful divine dance. And in a way, it's only by embracing the ten-thousand horrible visions and the ten-thousand beautiful visions, that you go through the doorway of nature to go beyond nature while at the same time being fully in it.” ~Ram Dass
"Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you start out as an infant with an undifferentiated awareness, and then you are taught who you are, that component, that structure which we call ego, is a very fragile structure. It seems tough, but it is actually a fragile structure. It is a structure that is created of mind, of learned neural patterns." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Honor the light in all of us. The more I love God, the more I love the forms of God, which are all forms. In that loving awareness, you are not as vulnerable as you would be in the ego, where you think you are separate from others." ~Ram Dass
"How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger into compassion – chaos into equanimity – separation into unity and oneness?" ~Ram Dass
"I am without form, without limit, beyond space, beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe." ~Ram Dass
"Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you start out as an infant with an undifferentiated awareness, and then you are taught who you are, that component, that structure which we call ego, is a very fragile structure. It seems tough, but it is actually a fragile structure. It is a structure that is created of mind, of learned neural patterns." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Honor the light in all of us. The more I love God, the more I love the forms of God, which are all forms. In that loving awareness, you are not as vulnerable as you would be in the ego, where you think you are separate from others." ~Ram Dass
"How do we transform suffering into grace? How do we cultivate a process that allows grace to fill our lives? How do we turn anger into compassion – chaos into equanimity – separation into unity and oneness?" ~Ram Dass
"I am without form, without limit, beyond space, beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe." ~Ram Dass
"I can do nothing for you but work on myself. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself." ~Ram Dass
"I experience quietness as an incredible condition. Within the quietness of mind you hear a kind of deeper process, a deeper wisdom." ~Ram Dass on Exploring the Power of Intuition
"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.” ~Ram Dass
"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. We need to find ways to keep the vision alive, to acknowledge but not get caught in the dark side, to remember that even the worst aspects of suffering are only part of the whole picture." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to awaken and get free, you can do it by dealing with the people around you without expecting that they will also want to get free. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get to be around people who also want to get free..." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love." ~Ram Dass
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Baba Ram Dass
"In the ascent and descent between planes of consciousness, there are two kinds of fears that people often face." ~Ram Dass, The Cost of Denying Suffering
"In the course of your journey it is likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of course, some of your existing relationships will move easily into this new domain and the relationship will become deeper and calmer… coming to exist in the eternal present." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"It is from the place in our heart cave where we watch the entire drama that is our lives. We watch the illusion with unbearable compassion." ~Ram Dass
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." ~Ram Dass
"It's only forms that change, not essence." ~Ram Dass
"It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~Ram Dass
"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. You can't rip it away. The whole trip is an unfolding process." ~Ram Dass
"It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity. We are all living in incredibly reactive webs. The art is to be in them, but not reactive to them." ~from Ram Dass
"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together." ~Ram Dass
"Love is the emotional color of the soul. Unconditional love is the color of enlightenment, unfettered by personal barriers or distinctions, devoid of ego, yet reflecting the highest Self. It’s like sunlight unfiltered by clouds or the taste of water from the purest spring..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation is a way of listening more deeply, so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is. Meditation will help you quiet your mind, enhance your ability to be insightful and understanding and give you a sense of inner peace." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. The simple rules of this game are honesty with yourself about where you are in your life and learning to listen to hear how it is." ~Ram Dass
"Most of the time, we’re living in our minds, in our memories, plans, reflections, and judgments." ~Ram Dass
"Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession." ~Ram Dass
"One of the things that makes relationships so difficult is the way in which we protect ourselves from suffering — from our own and from each other’s. Because when you love someone you don’t want to lay your suffering on them and your fears. Also you are afraid if you open your heart too far their suffering will overwhelm you." ~Ram Dass
"One way to get free of attachment is to cultivate the witness consciousness, to become a neutral observer of your own life. The witness place inside you is simple awareness, the part of you that is aware of everything — just noticing, watching, not judging, just being present, being here now..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it." ~Ram Dass
"Real love is the one celebrating itself as the two." ~Ram Dass
"Saints are one in their work as divine channels. They link us up with the source from which all bliss flows: love. They bake the unbaked pots and make them fit to receive the divine bliss. They illuminate the path by removing all the darkness that holds us back. Their work does not end with the energizing or enlightening of some select few here and there. They also serve as the unflickering flame helping to light other candles." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, between the ego and the soul. You look around at all the aspects of suffering, and you watch your heart close in judgment." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody." ~Baba Ram Dass
"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." ~Ram Dass
"The next message you need is always right where you are." ~Ram Dass
"The older we get, the more we lose; this is the law of impermanence. We lose loved ones, cherished dreams, physical strength, work, and relationships. Often, it seems like loss upon loss. All these losses bring up enormous grief that we must be prepared to embrace completely, if we are to live with open hearts." ~Ram Dass
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The root of the fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist here, within oneself. The root of the fear is within the model one has of oneself. That’s where fear starts. " - Ram Dass
"The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love." ~Ram Dass
"The way in which we deal with suffering has much to do with the way in which we are able to be of service to others. Of course, not all helping revolves around suffering. Much of what we offer may be in the nature of simple support or guidance: moving a friend’s new furniture, teaching a child to read. But it is the affliction of others that most directly awakens in us the desire to be of care and comfort..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The witness is your awareness of your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Witnessing is like waking up in the morning and then looking in the mirror and noticing yourself — not judging or criticizing, just neutrally observing the quality of being awake." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There are different strategies for coming into intimacy with The One that are appropriate for different people – different strokes for different folks." ~Ram Dass, The Horrible Beauty of Suffering
"... there are other kinds of emotions that are generated — emotions like anger, sadness, joy, that whole range of emotions. What one cultivates is spaciousness or an awareness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings, and it comes back to the word appreciating again." ~Ram Dass
"There is a tombstone in Ashby, Massachusetts that reads, “Remember friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself to follow me.” ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There’s horror and beauty in everything. I look at my hand, and it’s decaying. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same moment, and I just live with it. See the beauty and perfection of decay in the world around you and in yourself, and just allow it to be." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"I experience quietness as an incredible condition. Within the quietness of mind you hear a kind of deeper process, a deeper wisdom." ~Ram Dass on Exploring the Power of Intuition
"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.” ~Ram Dass
"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. We need to find ways to keep the vision alive, to acknowledge but not get caught in the dark side, to remember that even the worst aspects of suffering are only part of the whole picture." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family."
~Ram Dass
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to awaken and get free, you can do it by dealing with the people around you without expecting that they will also want to get free. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get to be around people who also want to get free..." ~Ram Dass
"If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love." ~Ram Dass
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." ~Baba Ram Dass
"In the ascent and descent between planes of consciousness, there are two kinds of fears that people often face." ~Ram Dass, The Cost of Denying Suffering
"In the course of your journey it is likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of course, some of your existing relationships will move easily into this new domain and the relationship will become deeper and calmer… coming to exist in the eternal present." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"It is from the place in our heart cave where we watch the entire drama that is our lives. We watch the illusion with unbearable compassion." ~Ram Dass
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." ~Ram Dass
"It's only forms that change, not essence." ~Ram Dass
"It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth." ~Ram Dass
"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. You can't rip it away. The whole trip is an unfolding process." ~Ram Dass
"It is up to the most conscious person in the situation to break the chain of reactivity. We are all living in incredibly reactive webs. The art is to be in them, but not reactive to them." ~from Ram Dass
"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together." ~Ram Dass
"Love is the emotional color of the soul. Unconditional love is the color of enlightenment, unfettered by personal barriers or distinctions, devoid of ego, yet reflecting the highest Self. It’s like sunlight unfiltered by clouds or the taste of water from the purest spring..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation is a way of listening more deeply, so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is. Meditation will help you quiet your mind, enhance your ability to be insightful and understanding and give you a sense of inner peace." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all things and the part each person plays. The simple rules of this game are honesty with yourself about where you are in your life and learning to listen to hear how it is." ~Ram Dass
"Most of the time, we’re living in our minds, in our memories, plans, reflections, and judgments." ~Ram Dass
"Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession." ~Ram Dass
"One of the things that makes relationships so difficult is the way in which we protect ourselves from suffering — from our own and from each other’s. Because when you love someone you don’t want to lay your suffering on them and your fears. Also you are afraid if you open your heart too far their suffering will overwhelm you." ~Ram Dass
"One way to get free of attachment is to cultivate the witness consciousness, to become a neutral observer of your own life. The witness place inside you is simple awareness, the part of you that is aware of everything — just noticing, watching, not judging, just being present, being here now..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it." ~Ram Dass
"Real love is the one celebrating itself as the two." ~Ram Dass
"Saints are one in their work as divine channels. They link us up with the source from which all bliss flows: love. They bake the unbaked pots and make them fit to receive the divine bliss. They illuminate the path by removing all the darkness that holds us back. Their work does not end with the energizing or enlightening of some select few here and there. They also serve as the unflickering flame helping to light other candles." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, between the ego and the soul. You look around at all the aspects of suffering, and you watch your heart close in judgment." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody." ~Baba Ram Dass
"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." ~Ram Dass
"The next message you need is always right where you are." ~Ram Dass
"The older we get, the more we lose; this is the law of impermanence. We lose loved ones, cherished dreams, physical strength, work, and relationships. Often, it seems like loss upon loss. All these losses bring up enormous grief that we must be prepared to embrace completely, if we are to live with open hearts." ~Ram Dass
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." ~Baba Ram Dass
"The root of the fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist here, within oneself. The root of the fear is within the model one has of oneself. That’s where fear starts. " - Ram Dass
"The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love." ~Ram Dass
"The way in which we deal with suffering has much to do with the way in which we are able to be of service to others. Of course, not all helping revolves around suffering. Much of what we offer may be in the nature of simple support or guidance: moving a friend’s new furniture, teaching a child to read. But it is the affliction of others that most directly awakens in us the desire to be of care and comfort..." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"The way to the truth is through acknowledging the fullness of where we find ourselves to be, which is through our humanity and our divinity." ~Ram Dass
"The witness is your awareness of your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Witnessing is like waking up in the morning and then looking in the mirror and noticing yourself — not judging or criticizing, just neutrally observing the quality of being awake." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There are different strategies for coming into intimacy with The One that are appropriate for different people – different strokes for different folks." ~Ram Dass, The Horrible Beauty of Suffering
"... there are other kinds of emotions that are generated — emotions like anger, sadness, joy, that whole range of emotions. What one cultivates is spaciousness or an awareness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings, and it comes back to the word appreciating again." ~Ram Dass
"There is a tombstone in Ashby, Massachusetts that reads, “Remember friend, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you must be. Prepare yourself to follow me.” ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"There’s horror and beauty in everything. I look at my hand, and it’s decaying. It’s beautiful and horrible at the same moment, and I just live with it. See the beauty and perfection of decay in the world around you and in yourself, and just allow it to be." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
“Through an open heart one hears the universe.” ~Ram Dass
“Turn off your mind, float downstream. Embrace the ten-thousand horrible visions and the ten-thousand beautiful visions. Embrace life. Go through it. Embrace it all. Be one with it all.” ~Ram Dass
"We're all just walking each other home." ~Ram Dass
"We're fascinated by the words - but where we meet is in the silence behind them." ~Ram Dass
"We are sharing our various ways of viewing the universe, and the consciousness that we bring to it allows us to see all these different places, stages, methods, and practices that are represented in part by those of us who are here." ~Ram Dass
"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." ~Ram Dass
"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass
"When we see that service is not a one-way street, we find that those we are helping give us a continuous stream of clues to help us escape the prison of our self-image." ~Ram Dass, The Emergence of Compassion
"When you are no longer laying trips on anyone, not judging, or discriminating individual differences, you become the environment in which the optimum growth is available to all human beings you come into contact with." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"When you begin to awaken, you see how caught you have been in the prison of your mind about certain reality… and how caught everybody else seems to be." ~Ram Dass
"When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens. You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in each moment." ~Ram Dass, The Edge of Awakening
"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru." ~Ram Dass (1931-2019)
"When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness." ~Ram Dass
"Without remaining open to change, we can not remain open to Life." ~Ram Dass
"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act." ~Ram Dass
"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into." ~Ram Dass
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success–none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you and it will always be here." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Your ego has all these wants. Your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One." ~Ram Dass
"Your problem is…you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness." ~Ram Dass
"Your understanding of what the universe is all about changes as you proceed further along the path towards enlightenment. " ~Ram Dass
OTHERS
"In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. Though we may be mindful of myriad details, our attention never wavers from the specific situation or person in need. The intimacy of our attention becomes a heart-to-heart lifeline made firm and fast; no one need fall from the edge. The quiet appreciation of the total situation and its inherent possibilities steadily moves things toward resolution; we find ways to step back. In a spirit of compassion and reverence for life, these various skills flourish and combine appropriately." ~Ram Dass and Paul Gorman (How Can I Help?)
"We're all just walking each other home." ~Ram Dass
"We're fascinated by the words - but where we meet is in the silence behind them." ~Ram Dass
"We are sharing our various ways of viewing the universe, and the consciousness that we bring to it allows us to see all these different places, stages, methods, and practices that are represented in part by those of us who are here." ~Ram Dass
"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution." ~Ram Dass
"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass
"When we see that service is not a one-way street, we find that those we are helping give us a continuous stream of clues to help us escape the prison of our self-image." ~Ram Dass, The Emergence of Compassion
"When you are no longer laying trips on anyone, not judging, or discriminating individual differences, you become the environment in which the optimum growth is available to all human beings you come into contact with." ~Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
"When you begin to awaken, you see how caught you have been in the prison of your mind about certain reality… and how caught everybody else seems to be." ~Ram Dass
"When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens. You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in each moment." ~Ram Dass, The Edge of Awakening
"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru." ~Ram Dass (1931-2019)
"When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness." ~Ram Dass
"Without remaining open to change, we can not remain open to Life." ~Ram Dass
"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act." ~Ram Dass
"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into." ~Ram Dass
"You are creating a structure to be able to support the fullness of our humanity. And different people have different unique opportunities to play in that. ~Ram Dass, Trusting Your Intuition vs. Your Analytical Mind
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success–none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you and it will always be here." ~Baba Ram Dass
"Your ego has all these wants. Your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One." ~Ram Dass
"Your problem is…you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness." ~Ram Dass
"Your understanding of what the universe is all about changes as you proceed further along the path towards enlightenment. " ~Ram Dass
OTHERS
"In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. Though we may be mindful of myriad details, our attention never wavers from the specific situation or person in need. The intimacy of our attention becomes a heart-to-heart lifeline made firm and fast; no one need fall from the edge. The quiet appreciation of the total situation and its inherent possibilities steadily moves things toward resolution; we find ways to step back. In a spirit of compassion and reverence for life, these various skills flourish and combine appropriately." ~Ram Dass and Paul Gorman (How Can I Help?)
BIO
Richard Alpert
"Turn off your mind and flow downstream."
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