Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature. Ram Dass gainslimitsmeditation Caring is a reflex...You live, you help. Ram Dass volunteercaringhelping By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. Ram Dass actingjusticehelping It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. Ram Dass butterflyripdone I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself! Ram Dass believe-in-yourselfwisdomwork Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. Ram Dass compassionsufferingheart If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving. Ram Dass enlightenedhomethinking I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves. Ram Dass space-betweenspacebelieve I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. Ram Dass who-i-amacceptancespiritual In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it. Ram Dass meditationwatches Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. Ram Dass importantcreativelove-is Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. Ram Dass practicespiritualmoving I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. Ram Dass awarenessopportunitylife The gift you offer another person is just your being. Ram Dass offerspersons Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out. Ram Dass flowmindheart The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization. Ram Dass actinglooksneeds I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about. Ram Dass gamespeopleway The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. Ram Dass able The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment. Ram Dass egolearningdeath Inspiration is God making contact with itself. Ram Dass contactawarenessinspiration
