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"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."
"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."
"A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos."
"My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too."
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"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."
"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help."
"I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey."
"The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays."
"A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age."
"Remember, Be Here Now."
"Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared."
"Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind."
"Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self."
"There can be conscious revolution."
"In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it."
"True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you."
"I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do."
"A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated."
"Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing."