Ram Dass

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

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 here, 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.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

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 taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

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

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

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

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

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 realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

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

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

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, as noise.

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