When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you… — Ram Dass Copy Share
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. — Ram Dass Copy Share
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… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents. — Ram Dass Copy Share
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there… — Ram Dass Copy Share
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the… — Ram Dass Copy Share
It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. — Ram Dass Copy Share
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom… — Ram Dass Copy Share
