Ram Dass: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.”

“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”

“Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”

“You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”

“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

“A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.”

“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.”

“As one individual changes, the system changes.”

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

“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”

“Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW… so you stop asking.”

“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

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

“You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”

“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”

“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

“The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.”

“Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.”