Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family. Ram Dass enlightened week want Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home. Ram Dass soul spiritual home If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. Ram Dass creating mind reality What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death. Ram Dass suffering god mean Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about. Ram Dass wisdom spiritual life When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. Ram Dass strong taken journey I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that. Ram Dass psychology people school I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day. Ram Dass hanging-out guru heart I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself. Ram Dass strokes used-to-be used You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional. Ram Dass life-experience body personality If you think you are free, there is no escape possible. Ram Dass be-here-now daring thinking A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos. Ram Dass oneness ego evolution If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine. Ram Dass light beautiful men Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence. Ram Dass persistence bored skills At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana. Ram Dass realizing firsts thinking There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe. Ram Dass accidents universe The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom. Ram Dass soul joy I love everybody. Even George Bush. Ram Dass Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! Ram Dass painful-love particular painful A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere. Ram Dass guru imagination men
