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“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
― Ram Dass

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
― ram dass

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
― Ram Dass

“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
― ram dass

“Be here now.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
― ram dass

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”
― ram dass

“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
― ram dass

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”
― ram dass

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
― Ram Dass

“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

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”
― ram dass

“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
― ram dass

“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”
― ram dass

“We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”
― Ram Dass, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
― ram dass

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”
― ram dass

“Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”
― ram dass

“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”
― ram dass

“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
― ram dass

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
― ram dass

“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
― ram dass

“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”
― Ram Dass

“Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.”
― Ram dass

“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”
― ram dass

“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
― ram dass