The Best Ram Dass quotes

You just love until you and the beloved become one. — Ram Dass

Compassion and love, that’s all. — Ram Dass

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass

I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being love. — Ram Dass

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself. — Ram Dass

When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at. — Ram Dass

If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear–emanate love. — Ram Dass

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love. — Ram Dass

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love. — Ram Dass

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t. — Ram Dass

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. — Ram Dass

Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart. — Ram Dass

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. — Ram Dass

Those particular thoughts that are painful–love them. I love them to death! — Ram Dass

I’m a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. — 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

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. — Ram Dass

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. — Ram Dass

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

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

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

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It’s all the same trip. — Ram Dass

Suffering brings me so close to God. — Ram Dass

What the word God means is the mystery really. It’s the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death. — Ram Dass

As you look at many people’s lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one. — Ram Dass

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart. — Ram Dass

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are! — Ram Dass

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. — Ram Dass

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are–and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. — Ram Dass

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. — Ram Dass

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

I can go all over the world with Skype. — Ram Dass

The world is won by those who let it go. — Ram Dass

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace. — Ram Dass

You have all the time in the world, but don’t waste a moment. — Ram Dass

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

I don’t have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing. — Ram Dass

When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time. — Ram Dass

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? — Ram Dass

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. — Ram Dass

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind.’ So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman. — Ram Dass

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind. — Ram Dass

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. — A. Einstein

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

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

Pain is the mind. It’s the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. — Ram Dass

I feel vulnerable because my mind–because of the stroke, my mind doesn’t focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don’t understand the world around me. — Ram Dass

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God. — Ram Dass

If you keep examining your mind, you’ll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you’re experiencing. — Ram Dass

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

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

We’ve been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don’t realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, ‘Come on, you’re getting into fantasy. — Ram Dass

You give up not meditating. It’s called meditation action. There’s no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. — Ram Dass

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn’t about the egos. — Ram Dass

I think it’s darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution. — Ram Dass

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you. — Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass

It wasn’t until after I’d been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness. — Ram Dass

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms. — Ram Dass

I was a sort of spIrItual uncle to a movement–to a conscIousness movement brIngIng the east and west together. — Ram Dass

We’re receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don’t acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise. — Ram Dass

I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself! — Ram Dass

Start from where you are–not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path. — Ram Dass

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. — Ram Dass

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God. — Ram Dass

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one’s mind and the openness of one’s heart. — Ram Dass

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

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about. — Ram Dass

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that’s spreading love heart to heart to heart. That’s my approach of my work. — Ram Dass

I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves. — Ram Dass

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

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

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. — Ram Dass

My life is a creative act––like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the ‘stuff’ of our lives. — Ram Dass

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life. — Ram Dass

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana. — Ram Dass

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. — Ram Dass

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn’t want to go anywhere near them. — Ram Dass

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. — Ram Dass

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it. — Ram Dass

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional. — Ram Dass

There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. — Ram Dass

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way. — Ram Dass

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart. — Ram Dass

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated. — Ram Dass

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart. — Ram Dass

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. — Ram Dass

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in. — Ram Dass

If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart. — 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

When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God. — Ram Dass

I’ve firmly come to the conclusion that there are no ‘themes’ for me anymore. I can’t be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue–I only see an ‘us’ in my heart. — Ram Dass

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion. — Ram Dass

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. — Ram Dass