"Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments."
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Ram Dass quotes (page 9 of 17)
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"The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it"
"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."
"These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego."
"Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart."
"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."
"Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us."
"When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at."
"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"
"When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time."
"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."
"In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."
"This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people."
"The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity."
"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."
"When you know how to listen everyone is the guru"
"In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it."
"When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul"
"The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't."
"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."