350 Famous Ram Dass Quotes To Inspire Love In Life (2023)

1. “In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

2. "Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.” – Ram Dass

3. "The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.”

4. “My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.”

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

6. “What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”

7. If you think you're enlightened, try spending a week with your family.

8. “I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.”

9. "I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

10. I can resonate with you in the highest place that I am. So: I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.

11. "You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”

12. "I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”

13. 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 of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

14. "Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

15. "Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.” – Ram Dass

16. "Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

17. "I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are” ― Ram Dass

18. "Death doesn’t need to be treated as an enemy to delight in life…I encourage to make peace with death. To see it as a culminating adventure of this adventure of life. It is not an error, it is not a failure. It is taking off a tight shoe that you’ve worn well.”

19. "Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.”

20. Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not "I love you" for this or that reason, not "I love you if you love me". It's love for no reason, love without an objective.

21. "As one individual changes, the system changes.”

22. "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 naturally.”

23. “I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.”

24. "Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity the involuntary reflex of fear.”

25. "When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens...you sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.”

26. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

27. Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.

28. “Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

29. "Once you get to your soul, then every person you look at is a soul.” – Ram Dass

30. A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

31. “The most exquisite paradox…as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

32. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

33. "To rest in awareness also means to stand free of the prejudices of mind that come from identifying with cherished attitudes and opinions. We can listen without being busy planning, analyzing, theorizing…and especially judging. We can open into the moment fully in order to hear it all.”

34. “When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship – which means something that exists between two or more people – for the most part reinforces people’s separateness as individual entities.”

35. "Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”

36. "Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.” – Ram Dass

37. “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”

38. THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF LOVE IS NOT IN GIVING OR THE RECEIVING: IT'S IN THE BEING.

39. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”

40. Ask yourself: where am I? Answer: here. Ask yourself: what time is it? Answer: now. Say it until you can hear it.

41. "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 you are not only a part, but which you are.”

42. "When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.” – Ram Dass

43. "In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” – Ram Dass

44. The most exquisite paradox...as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

45. "Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”

46. "Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.”

47. "The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.”

48. "The game is not about becoming somebody; it’s about becoming nobody.”

49. “We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

50. "Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

51. "The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it–just don’t get lost in it.”

52. “When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”

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

54. "Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.”

55. "Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass

56. "In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?” – Ram Dass

57. "We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

58. “If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

59. The next message you need is always right where you are.

60. “Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”

61. “The next message you need is always right where you are.”

62. “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”

63. "We’re all just walking each other home.”

64. The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. Listen to your own truth.

65. "A moment comes when"other” is no longer other.”

66. As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. – Baba Ram Dass

67. “You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”

68. "My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.”

69. "Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”

70. "If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

71. “If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.”

72. "We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

73. "We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.”

74. "Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything.”

75. “When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.”

76. "In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

77. “Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”

78. "The next message you need is always right where you are.”

79. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

80. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me."

81. “I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”

82. "I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

83. "The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

84. "Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”

85. "The game is to be where you are. Be it honestly and as consciously as you know how.”

86. “Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

87. "Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.”

88. "Everybody is playing with their stories; who they think they are. It’s more fun to just witness it all. To be in the environment in which it’s all happening.”

89. “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 to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

90. "Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

91. The journey across the great ocean of existence is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth

92. “Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being. We are enough.”

93. "Emptiness is not really empty; emptiness is fully of everything. The ‘everything’ just isn’t manifest.”

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

95. “I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.”

96. "It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

97. "Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.” ― Ram Dass

98. "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 to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

99. "Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer Now. Say it until you can hear it.”

100. "Death is our greatest challenge as well as our greatest spiritual opportunity.”

101. "Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”

102. SUFFERING ONLY SHOWS WHERE YOU ARE ATTACHED. THAT IS WHY, TO THOSE ON THE PATH, SUFFERING IS GRACE.

103. "Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW…so you stop asking.”

104. "The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

105. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

106. "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.” ― Ram Dass

107. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

108. "Your ‘downs’ turn out to be more interesting than your highs after a while because it’s showing you where you’re aren’t.”

109. Without remaining open to change, we can not remain open to life.

110. "Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Do not alter your innate wakefulness. Fear not appearances. There is nothing more than this.”

111. “Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those, I didn’t want to go anywhere near them. But the stroke reminded me that I had a body and a brain, that I had to honor them.”

112. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

113. The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

114. “If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

115. When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru speaking to you. It's right here...always.

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117. "When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.”

118. "Once you get to your soul, then every person you look at is a soul.”

119. "When you are causing suffering to others, you are causing suffering to yourself.”

120. “Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.”

121. "When you begin to realize that suffering is grace, you can’t believe it, you think you’re cheating. See, it doesn’t mean not having any preferences. It means not being attached to your preferences.”

122. "As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.” ― Ram Dass

123. The spiritual trip in this moment is not necessarily a cave in the Himalayas, but it's in relation to the technology that's existing, it's in relation to where we're at, it's relation to issues like pollution, political interest and activism. It’s all part of one package now.”

124. “Start from where you are–not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.”

125. "A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.” – Ram Dass

126. “I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”

127. Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.

128. "We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass

129. “The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

130. "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

131. I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

132. "The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.”

133. "As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.”

134. "Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.” – Ram Dass

135. “Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your Transformation. Use it!” - Ram Dass Be Here Now

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

137. "The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”

138. “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 your own truth.”

139. "Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.” ― Ram Dass

140. “I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.”

141. "What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”

142. "Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

143. "The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.” – Ram Dass

144. As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving, you're just being love, radiating like the sun.

145. “I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, ‘My god, he’s going to know all the things I don’t want people to know.’ I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.”

146. “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

147. "I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That’s all I do all day.”

148. “The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”

149. "Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.”

150. “Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.”

151. "I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”

152. "Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

153. “We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.”

154. “Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

155. “Only that in you, which is me can hear what I’m saying.”

156. "If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!”

157. If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

158. "How do we know who we are? We might be one breath away from enlightenment or death or who knows? The uncertainty is great. It keeps it wide open.”

159. “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”

160. “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now. Don’t think about the future. Just be here now."

161. "We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness” – Ram Dass

162. "If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”

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

164. "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

165. It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

166. "The soul comes to the incarnation to learn something. You learn best to involve yourself in the game; loving watching yourself with humor and love.”

167. “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”

168. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

169. "Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.” – Ram Dass

170. "I am without form without limit. Beyond space – beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe. I am everything.”

171. “As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.”

172. "Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.”

173. "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 of mind.”

174. "Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”

175. "You walk down the street and you’re somebody; you dress like somebody; your face looks like somebody. Everybody is reinforcing their structure of the universe over and over again and you meet [each other] like two huge things meeting. We enter into these conspiracies. You say, I’ll make believe you are who you think you are if you make believe I am who I think I am.”

176. "In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.”

177. "The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.” – Ram Dass

178. "Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

179. “We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

180. CLINGING TO DESIRES HAS MADE YOUR LIFE COMPLICATED.

181. "The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.”

182. "The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”

183. "When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

184. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

185. "What how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgement means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.”

186. “As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”

187. "When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.” – Ram Dass

188. "You just love until you and the beloved become one.”

189. Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

190. "When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability.”

191. “The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. ‘Death is perfectly safe,’ I like to say.”

192. "Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

193. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”

194. “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 intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.”

195. "Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.”

196. "A rule of the spiritual practice game is learning to trust one’s own intuitive heart; learning to trust another way of knowing outside of the rational, analytical process. That you start to respond to something in you that knows even though who you think you are doesn’t know it knows. It turns out intuition is perhaps where salvation lies and where thinking is where our destruction lies. We thought our way into this peculiar situation where we’re alienated from the Earth and from each other. And caught in greed which is a product of the mind.

197. “Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”

198. "The ego is frightened by death, because ego is a part of the incarnation and ends with it.”

199. "My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.”

200. “Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”

201. IT'S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.

202. "Death is perfectly safe, I like to say.”

203. "Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being.”

204. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”

205. “We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”

206. "The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

207. "Give up the anger. Working it through is making it something. Just give it up.”

208. "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 your own truth.”

209. "Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”

210. "I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.”

211. “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 your own truth.”

212. "When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

213. “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 is, it’s got you.”

214. "By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.”

215. "There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

216. “As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.”

217. "When you take off your mask, it’s easier for everyone else to do it. Our culture is so mask-driven. Imagine an office with no mask."

218. "Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”

219. "You just love until you and the beloved become one.” – Ram Dass

220. “Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

221. “Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”

222. "If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” ― Ram Dass

223. "The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.” ― Ram Dass

224. "It’s better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.”

225. When the suffering comes down pike you don’t turn away from it because you know that the only reason you’re suffering is to show you the clinging of your own mind. It’s being offered to you as a gift.”

226. "In our culture we’ve been trained to make individual differences to stand out. You look at each person and think, ‘Brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer’ and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat people that way. And we only see others as separate from ourselves. One of the dramatic characteristics of the psychedelic experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you – not different from you.”

227. “I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”

228. As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall.

229. "We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”

230. "Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.”

231. “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 to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

232. "Your entire life is a curriculum. Everything you've got on your plate is where the stuff for your enlightenment is. It’s breathtaking when you see the beauty of this design.”

233. "The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being.”

234. "As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”

235. “In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I’m just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.”

236. "Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell.”

237. "Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”

238. “It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!”

239. "A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything is liberated”

240. “Early in the journey, you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.”

241. "Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”

242. TREAT EVERYONE YOU MEET AS IF THEY ARE GOD IN DRAG.

243. "You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.” – Ram Dass

244. “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 of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”

245. "Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing.”

246. “The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.”

247. "When I was born I donned a spacesuit for living on this plane, it was this body, my space suit, and it had a steering mechanism which is my pre-frontal lobe and all the brain that helps with coordinating and stuff. Just like those others who go to the moon and learn to use their space suit...how to grab things and lift things so I learned how to do that. And then you get rewarded with little stars, kisses and all kinds of things when you learn how to use your space suit. You get so good at it that you can't differentiate yourself from your spacesuit.”

248. "Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being, it is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason love without an object.”

249. "Life on this plane is like being in the 4th grade. You took birth here because you have certain work to do that involves the suffering you do, the kinds of situations you find yourself in. This is your curriculum. It’s not an error. Where you are now with all your neurosis and your problems; you’re sitting in just the right place. Imagine that.”

250. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

251. "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 that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.”

252. "Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”

253. "I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”

254. “I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That’s all I do all day.”

255. The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

256. “If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”

257. "In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

258. "Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being. We are enough.” – Ram Dass

259. I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is.

260. "Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?”

261. “We're all just walking each other home.”

262. "Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.” – Ram Dass

263. “Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.”

264. "Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.” – Ram Dass

265. "When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t.” ― Ram Dass

266. “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 your own truth.”

267. "When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.”

268. Souls love. That's what souls do. Ego don't, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you'll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.

269. "As you find the light in you, you begin to see the light in everyone else.”

270. “I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being love.”

271. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN BEING A "LOVER." I'M INTERESTED IN ONLY BEING LOVE.

272. Everyone should smile. Life really isn't that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

273. "Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.” – Ram Dass

274. "All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

275. Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it.

276. What are you doing planning for the future? Well it's all right now. But later? Forget it baby. That's later. Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

277. “We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.”

278. "Together we are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the end. None is deprived of pain here and we have all suffered in our own ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let us help each other survive.”

279. "By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.” – Ram Dass

280. "You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”

281. THE SHADOW IS THE GREATEST TEACHER FOR HOW TO COME TO THE LIGHT.

282. Get updates on the latest posts and more from Kidadl straight to your inbox.

283. Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

284. "I’m not interested in being a"lover.” I’m interested in only being love.”

285. “I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.”

286. "The world is won by those who let it go.”

287. "Wherever you are, be all there.”

288. "Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

289. "Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.”

290. "All acts of healing are ultimately ourselves healing our Self.”

291. “Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

292. "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 it as another moment. Yet it’s the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.”

293. "It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

294. “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

295. "When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness.”

296. "Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”

297. "Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.”

298. "I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being love.”

299. “When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.”

300. “I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.”

301. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

302. “When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

303. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

304. The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

305. "Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being. We are enough.”

306. "Be here now. Don’t anticipate. Don’t yearn for things of the past. Let the past go with forgiveness. And let the future go with no anticipation.”

307. “We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”

308. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

309. "To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.”

310. "Love is the most transformative medicine for Love slowly transforms you into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.”

311. "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

312. "Anytime you push something away it’s still there.”

313. "Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

314. “I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”

315. "A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

316. “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 of mind.”

317. "You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.”

318. "Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”

319. “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

320. I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

321. "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 of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”

322. “We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.”

323. “If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.”

324. “Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.”

325. "When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”

326. "It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!”

327. "The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all, as long as you want power, you can’t have it.”

328. "We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.”

329. The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

330. “Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them. I love them to death!“

331. “What how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.” – Guru Ram Dass

332. "Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.”

333. "What we’re seeing"out there” is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clinging’s of our minds.”

334. “I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

335. “We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

336. "If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”

337. "I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”

338. “In India, there’s a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It’s called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.”

339. "You have to have a lot of compassion for the stages people are in. Souls are neither nor evil. Actions are good or evil. Motivation is good or evil. Personalities can be good or evil. But the essence of being is neither good or evil it just is. And it sometimes it has heavy stuff to work out and other times good stuff to work out."

340. “Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”

341. "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”

342. Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

343. "We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.” – Ram Dass

344. "The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear to all of it. And as long as there is a place where your vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.”

345. "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.” ― Ram Dass

346. "We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

347. "When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies – it’s all one. It’s one energy.”

348. "Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.”

349. "Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”

350. The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.