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.
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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