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 the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
Interpretation
What this quote means
An open heart facilitates a deeper spiritual connection and understanding.
This quote by Ram Dass suggests that emotional openness and vulnerability allow individuals to turn their thoughts and intentions towards a higher power or spirituality. When we are open-hearted, we are more receptive to divine insight and spiritual truth, making it easier for our minds to connect with God in a meaningful way.
Themes
HeartMindSpiritualityOpennessConnection
In practice
Example use cases
In a meditation group discussing spiritual growth.
More from Ram Dass
All quotes βThe gift you offer another person is just your being.
Ram DassRead
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
Ram DassRead
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
Ram DassRead
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.
Ram DassRead
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.
Ram DassRead
Similar quotes
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
Deepak ChopraRead
The experience of our generation: _x000D_ that capitalism will not die a natural death.
Walter BenjaminRead
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human ββ βTHEN β I β DONβT β WANT β TO β BE β HUMAN!β Harry roared.
J. K. RowlingRead
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.
J. C. RyleRead