Life Quotes by Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

— Ram Dass

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

— Ram Dass

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

— Ram Dass

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

— Ram Dass

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

— Ram Dass

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

— Ram Dass

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

— Ram Dass

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you…

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Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE…

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The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery…

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What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of…

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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I…

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What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste…

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When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided…

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“to him, to Krishna, to God. To use your daily life and work as a conscious spiritual path means relinquishing your attachment…

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Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at…

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You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody,…

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The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness…

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I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is…

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As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by…

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Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish,…

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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

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“You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.”

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My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

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We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the…

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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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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and…

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You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain…

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I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is…

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The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage…

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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.…

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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.

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As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in…

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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.…

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We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

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At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do…

— Ram Dass