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
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Interpretation
Everyone has a personal way of sharing their insights with others.
In this quote, Ram Dass emphasizes the individuality of wisdom sharing. Each person possesses their own unique experiences and insights, which can be conveyed through various means, such as art, teaching, or conversation. The 'vehicle' symbolizes the method or medium through which one's wisdom is expressed, highlighting the diversity and richness of human expression in sharing meaningful experiences with others.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding your passion.
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.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
Itβs never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesnβt hurt you.
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.
You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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