Ram Dass citáty

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

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

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

“Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

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

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”

“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.”

“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”

“We're all just walking each other home.”

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”

“As far as I'm concerned we are all God
That's the difference
If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.”

“To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.”

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

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”

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

“By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.”

“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”

“It was all my identities, all rolling in over me.”

“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.”

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”

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

“In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
The secret isn't that you're not being told.
The secret is that you're not able to hear.”

“There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.”

“It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.”

“But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense.”