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
Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Patience is essential for personal growth and understanding when to take action.
This quote by Ram Dass emphasizes the importance of patience in life. It suggests that there are times when we should remain still and reflective, allowing our understanding and awareness to develop until we instinctively know the right moment to progress or take action. This reflects a deep wisdom about timing and internal readiness.
Themes
PatienceGrowthAwarenessTimingSelf-Discovery
In practice
Example use cases
In a personal development seminar, you can share this quote to encourage attendees to be patient with their 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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Bertrand RussellRead
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Guy De MaupassantRead
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Abraham MaslowRead
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustRead
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellRead
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
Stephen MitchellRead