Category Quotations

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

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…

Ram Dass Says: “I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works…

Ram Dass Says: “I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

Ram Dass Says: “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…

Ram Dass Says: “I honor the place in you where the entire Universe resides. I honor the place of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in…

Ram Dass Says: “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.”

Ram Dass Says: “I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”

Ram Dass Says: “I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.”

Ram Dass Says: “I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn’t want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me.…