Ram Dass

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Ram Dass was a spiritual teacher and author known for his influential work 'Be Here Now,' which blends Eastern spirituality with Western psychology.

Born
April 6, 1931
Died
December 22, 2019
Quotes
338
Rank
#253

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"I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution."

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"When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be."

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"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."

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"In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?"

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"If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them."

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"Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them."

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"I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer."

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"You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds."

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"Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions."

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"Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation"

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"It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!"

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"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."

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"The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions."

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"There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events."

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