Category Quotations

Ram Dass Says: “Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.”

Ram Dass Says: “Meditation brings this change. Each moment starts to have a richness or thickness of its own. Fewer moments are special as more of them become richer. This lessens the rushes, the highs and lows. As they disappear…

Ram Dass Says: “Learning to live in the moment can be such a difficult task for even the most mindful of us, yet it’s so important in order for us to become free.”

Ram Dass Says: “Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.”

Ram Dass Says: “It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

Ram Dass Says: “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…

Ram Dass Says: “In truth, there are millions and millions of stimuli that we are not even noticing, that go by, in every plane of existence, all the time. The reason we don’t notice or react to them is because…

Ram Dass Says: “In a non-traditional culture such as ours, dominated by technology, we value information far more than we do wisdom. But there is a difference between the two. Information involves the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of facts; a…

Ram Dass Says: “If you feel free only when you meditate, you’re not really free. Freedom does not come from turning your back on your responsibilities. The game is to be in the world but not of it. Even when…

Ram Dass Says: “I’m aware of my thoughts, but loving awareness is simply witnessing them. And loving awareness is in the moment. I have thoughts about the past and future, and those are not helpful, so I dive deep into…