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 If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe. Ram Dass peaceful responsibility want The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes. Ram Dass live-your-life fearless life-changing Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. Ram Dass love-and-fear interaction fear Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. Ram Dass spirituality mind religion The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. Ram Dass veils journey spiritual Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. Ram Dass meditation letting-go mean Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment. Ram Dass moments mind thinking After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change. Ram Dass passive-resistance struggle years Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama. Ram Dass knowing drama watches The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. Ram Dass light sleep mean You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. Ram Dass loving-life self-esteem inspirational The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. Ram Dass preoccupation deny ego We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Ram Dass moments mean world External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Ram Dass silence doorways Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds. Ram Dass important mind running The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. Ram Dass judging live-in-the-moment heart Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass data wisdom knowledge So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff. Ram Dass judging use stuff Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. Ram Dass freedom attachment suffering At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were. Ram Dass who-we-are ego moments
