Quotes by Ram Dass

About Ram Dass:

Ram Dass is an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He continues to teach via his website.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Ram Dass

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Ram Dass

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.

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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

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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.

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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however t...

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I can go all over the world with Skype.

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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that...

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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.

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I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

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Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

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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.

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It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are ‘together’ in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sh...

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We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRam Dass
  • DescriptionAmerican contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
  • BornApril 6, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychologist; Author