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Heart Quotes by Ram Dass

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Ram Dass teaches that suffering can open the heart and bring us to where we are. He says quieting the mind and opening the heart prepares us for both life and death. He also encourages seeing every person, even those we don’t love, as a chance to expand our heart.

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I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

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Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

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Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

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Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

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Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

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If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

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I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out…

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My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the…

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If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going…

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The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness…

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Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not…

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I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego…

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I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of…

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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be…

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The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too…

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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much…

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When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not…

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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my…

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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…

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When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel…

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The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a…

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Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the…

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Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable…

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The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

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

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I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that…

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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all…

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Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

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When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in…

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Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart…

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The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart…

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So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get…

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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find…

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I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who…

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The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your…

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The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and…

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When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next…

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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.

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