We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine! Ram Dass More Quotes by Ram Dass More Quotes From Ram Dass After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain. Ram Dass journey humble inspirational When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness. Ram Dass mirrors practice heart Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism. Ram Dass spiritual wise order Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. Ram Dass cracks ego soul You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. Ram Dass giving-up meditation mean My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got. Ram Dass skills mind heart Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is. Ram Dass awareness rivers Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego. Ram Dass ego fear-of-death I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting. Ram Dass creativity work men The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't. Ram Dass enlightened enlightenment persons Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are. Ram Dass persons thinking You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into. Ram Dass reality world moving We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. Ram Dass live-life caves meditation If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. Ram Dass freedom yoga philosophy In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear. Ram Dass secret listening life The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it Ram Dass perfect desire world Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking. Ram Dass journey asking long These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego. Ram Dass ego two thinking The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening. Ram Dass offering letting-go drama The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays. Ram Dass mountain persons moving
