Wise and Beautiful Quotes From Ram Dass
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.
Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being love.
If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness.
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Only that in you, which is me can hear what I’m saying.
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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.
The next message you need is always right where you are.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
We’re all just walking each other home.
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