Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting t... by Ram Dass

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! by Ram Dass

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

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We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

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So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

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If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

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We gain internal freedom through external actions. by Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

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I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

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We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the wa... by Ram Dass

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

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I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

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What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

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Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your h... by Ram Dass

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

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I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only bei... by Ram Dass

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

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When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

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A moment comes when "other" is no longer other. by Ram Dass

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

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Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

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We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

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When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and e... by Ram Dass

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

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If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

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