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From Quotes by Ram Dass
- You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack…
- The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them…
- We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static,…
- When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you…
- The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
- Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
- Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
- When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as…
- The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering…
- From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it…
- Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to…
- You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging…
- The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need…
- Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see…
- Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people…
- The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which…
- In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle