Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found _x000D_ that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
Ram DassRead
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
Interpretation
Seeing the divine in everyone allows us to appreciate the beauty in humanity.
This quote by Ram Dass suggests that recognizing the beloved, or the divine essence, in each individual transforms our perception of others. Just as a garden filled with blooming flowers brings joy and beauty, seeing the divine in people enriches our experiences and fosters love and connection among us.
In practice
In a speech about kindness, this quote can emphasize the importance of seeing the good in others.
Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found _x000D_ that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
The gift you offer another person is just your being.
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. _x000D_ _x000D_ In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. _x000D_ _x000D_ When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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.
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
There are as many loves as there are hearts.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
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