Ram Dass Quotes – Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert in 1931) was an American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author. He was known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s on consciousness expansion and spiritual transformation. He wrote several books including “Be Here Now” and “Journey of Awakening.” He was also a key figure in the popularization of Hindu spirituality and mindfulness practices in the Western world. Ram Dass passed away in 2019 at the age of 87.
Most Popular Books of Ram Dass
- Be Here Now
- Journey of Awakening: A Mediator’s Guidebook
- Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
- How can I Help? Stories and Reflection on Service
- The Only Dance There Is
Ram Dass Quotes to Inspire your Life
“The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. ‘Death is perfectly safe,’ I like to say.”
“If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.”
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”
“Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them. I love them to death! “
“Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. “
“From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.”
“When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”
“When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship – which means something that exists between two or more people – for the most part reinforces people’s separateness as individual entities.”
“My belief is that I wasn’t born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.”
“When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn’t want to go anywhere near them.”
“My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.”
Ram Dass Quotes on Love
“I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, ‘My god, he’s going to know all the things I don’t want people to know.’ I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.”
“I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That’s all I do all day.”
“I feel vulnerable because my mind – because of the stroke, my mind doesn’t focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don’t understand the world around me.”
Ram Dass Inspirational quotes
“Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them. I love them to death!”
“If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
“When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.”
“The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”
“Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.”
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
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