Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are — 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 most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try… — 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
The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me'… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the… — 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
In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire… — 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
