Ram Dass quotes

Ram Dass was an American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, best known for his book "Be Here Now." His teachings combined Eastern philosophies with Western psychology, inspiring generations to pursue spiritual growth and mindfulness. He influenced countless people by encouraging compassion, love, and self-awareness. Here are 115 of his quotes:

The most exquisite paradox... as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. (Ram Dass)
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear. View quote
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. View quote
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The next message you need is always right where you are. View quote
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. View quote
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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness. View quote
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. View quote
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. View quote
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. View quote
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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? View quote
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself. (Ram Dass)
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. View quote
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There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. View quote
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. View quote
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody. View quote
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It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos. View quote
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Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. View quote
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It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! View quote
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We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering. View quote
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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. View quote
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When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God. (Ram Dass)
Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved. View quote
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He [Bhagwan Dass] wasn't the least bit interested in all of the extraordinary dramas that I had collected ... He was the first person I couldn't seduce into being interested in all this. He just didn't care. And yet, I never felt so profound an intimacy with another being. It was as if he were inside of my heart. And what started to blow my mind was that everywhere we went, he was at home. View quote
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His [Bhagwan Dass'] teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within ... that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation ... as if I knew it all already. View quote
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Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go. View quote
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Photo: Joan Halifax (Santa Fe, New Mexico), CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Psychologist
Born: April 6, 1931
Died: December 22, 2019
Quotes count: 115
Wikipedia: Ram Dass

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