Occupation: Teacher Birth: April 6, 1931
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse..
I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing..
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 breathing. Whatever arises, I….
If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, tha….
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..
Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps emb….
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st cent….
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 n….
The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is be….
One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt..
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto..
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death..
Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, bird….
Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home..
If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being..
When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the ….
The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom..
Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared..
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart..
We gain internal freedom through external actions..
When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can com….