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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"Give it all up and you can have it all."

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"If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family."

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"When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it."

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"The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom."

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"There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid."

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"Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind."

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"I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive."

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"There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect."

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"And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there."

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"A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."

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"As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love."

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"I love everybody. Even George Bush."

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

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"As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept."

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"I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that."

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