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Psychology Quotes by Ram Dass

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When the heart is open, the mind finds it easier to turn toward something larger. Quieting the mind helps us prepare for both death and life, while examining our thoughts reveals where we are stuck. Suffering, then, becomes a sign that the mind still needs untangling.

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When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

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We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

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The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

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Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

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Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be…

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When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

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In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

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We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and…

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You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself…

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I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I…

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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find…

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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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Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind…

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“Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter,…

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I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good…

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When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next…

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Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me'…

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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass…

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Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I…

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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass…

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You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an…

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“you see it.” Gurdjieff, a great spiritual teacher who taught in Europe and America in the early decades of the twentieth century,…

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Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable…

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Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

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Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

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Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart…

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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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If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going…

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My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the…

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Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

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If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are…

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We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because…

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Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my…

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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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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can…

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The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom…