The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair. Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it. Ram Dass pain attachment long Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace. Ram Dass grace suffering path We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Ram Dass hippie mind mean Don't take yourself so personally. Ram Dass perspective The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end. Ram Dass pain caring heart Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are. Ram Dass longing creativity spring Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. Ram Dass appreciate love peace This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being. Ram Dass keys journey spiritual The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different. Ram Dass different space reality Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. Ram Dass scare ego thinking The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. Ram Dass money spiritual long As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. Ram Dass yoga spiritual long The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all. Ram Dass unbearable pain art We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine! Ram Dass sunshine tree thinking Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass world-suffering training wise You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't. Ram Dass self men thinking Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life Ram Dass can-not letting-go Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean. Ram Dass distance ocean watches In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste." Ram Dass ubuntu peace mean When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. Ram Dass flower attitude love
