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
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
Interpretation
What this quote means
One can find peace and acceptance even in difficult circumstances.
This quote by Ram Dass suggests that true stillness and contentment come from within, regardless of external conditions. It encourages the idea that one can maintain a sense of peace and purpose even amid turmoil or dissatisfaction, emphasizing the importance of inner strength and acceptance.
Themes
StillnessContentmentInner PeaceDiscontentAcceptance
In practice
Example use cases
During a meditation session, this quote can inspire participants to find peace within themselves.
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
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
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.
Ram DassRead
Similar quotes
You are free when you gain back yourself,β Madame Wu said. βYou can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.
Pearl S. BuckRead
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
Chogyam TrungpaRead
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Elmore LeonardRead
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
Norbert WienerRead
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Duke Of WellingtonRead
If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
Steve JobsRead