Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere. Ram Dass my-imagination guru imagination Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Ram Dass pain mind The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart. Ram Dass spiritual mind heart I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me. Ram Dass focus mind world And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there. Ram Dass witness soul spiritual As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love. Ram Dass ocean land people There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid. Ram Dass cures poverty war I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Ram Dass witness spiritual heart When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it. Ram Dass done complaining looks There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect. Ram Dass despair community people As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept. Ram Dass splits revolution games I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive. Ram Dass pool alive spiritual Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices. Ram Dass becoming soul teaching Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind. Ram Dass mountain mind mean I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives. Ram Dass joy people thinking When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. Ram Dass command guru giving If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being. Ram Dass determined enough watches Your ego has all these wants, your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One. Ram Dass health-news As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. Ram Dass grow compassion love people If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru. Ram Dass yourself myself you love
