“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”Ram Dass
“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”Ram Dass
“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”Ram Dass
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”Ram Dass
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”Ram Dass
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”Ram Dass
“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”Ram Dass
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now
“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?”Ram Dass