When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not… — 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
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
