Tom Mack > Tom's Quotes

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

“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

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
― ram dass

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
― Ram Dass

“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

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

“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

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
― ram dass

“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”
― 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

“Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.”
― Ram Dass

“Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know.”—Tao Te Ching”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
― Bob Marley

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Haile Selassie I, Selected Speeches