“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”Ram Dass
“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.”Ram Dass
“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.”Ram Dass
“Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this”Ram Dass
“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.”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now
“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.”Ram Dass
“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.”Ram Dass
“If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.It takes one to know one!”Ram Dass
“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”Ram Dass
“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.”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now
“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.”Ram Dass
“When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.”Ram Dass
“You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now
“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.”Ram Dass
“Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.”Ram Dass book Be Here NowSource: Be Here Now