We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine! — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God. — 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
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I… — 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
We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind… — 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
I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — 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
If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds. — 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
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. — 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
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment. — 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
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
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
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
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I… — 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
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass… — 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
