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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"Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments."

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"The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it"

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"I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering."

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"These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego."

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"Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart."

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"I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting."

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"Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us."

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"When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at."

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"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"

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"When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time."

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"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for."

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"In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."

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"The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity."

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"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."

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"In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it."

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"When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul"

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"The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough."

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