George Buck > George's Quotes

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

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

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

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass

“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

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

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

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

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

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”
― Ram Dass

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

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
― ram dass

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

“Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.”
― ram dass

“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”
― ram dass

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

“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

“A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.”
― ram dass

“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”
― ram dass

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

“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

“The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.”
― ram dass

“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”
― Ram Dass

“When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.”
― ram dass

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

“What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.”
― ram dass

“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