Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe. Ram Dass peacefulresponsibilitywant The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes. Ram Dass live-your-lifefearlesslife-changing Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. Ram Dass love-and-fearinteractionfear Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. Ram Dass spiritualitymindreligion The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. Ram Dass veilsjourneyspiritual Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. Ram Dass meditationletting-gomean Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment. Ram Dass momentsmindthinking After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change. Ram Dass passive-resistancestruggleyears Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama. Ram Dass knowingdramawatches The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. Ram Dass lightsleepmean You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. Ram Dass loving-lifeself-esteeminspirational The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. Ram Dass preoccupationdenyego We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Ram Dass momentsmeanworld External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Ram Dass silencedoorways Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds. Ram Dass importantmindrunning The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. Ram Dass judginglive-in-the-momentheart Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass datawisdomknowledge So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff. Ram Dass judgingusestuff Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. Ram Dass freedomattachmentsuffering At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were. Ram Dass who-we-areegomoments
