Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. Ram Dass sandpapersufferingdoe Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. Ram Dass unityconsciousnessopposites When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be. Ram Dass usedwantinteresting Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. Ram Dass confidencelove-yourselfself-esteem If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients Ram Dass clientsgiving-upattachment There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. Ram Dass paintingeventsspiritual When you know how to listen everyone is the guru Ram Dass know-howguruinspiring Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another. Ram Dass compassionanimalmean One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away. Ram Dass passing-awaywatchesfall I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. Ram Dass yogapracticeheart As one individual changes, the system changes. Ram Dass systems-changeindividualconsciousness Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. Ram Dass philosophicalrespectphilosophy The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. Ram Dass egowisdomspiritual Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. Ram Dass being-in-lovebelovedmean Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are. Ram Dass differenceschangethinking If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them. Ram Dass giving-upattachmentjourney Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. Ram Dass spiritualityhappenedreligion All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. Ram Dass practicespiritualreligion The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough. Ram Dass appreciateappreciationway In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? Ram Dass our-relationshipusedyesterday
