I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is… — 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… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions..… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and… — 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… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and… — 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
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
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
