Category Quotations

Ram Dass Says: “The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to

Ram Dass Says: “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…

Ram Dass Says: “The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature, then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of…

Ram Dass Says: “The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.”

Ram Dass Says: “The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it–just don’t get lost in it.”

Ram Dass Says: “The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at…

Ram Dass Says: “Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

Ram Dass Says: “Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

Ram Dass Says: “Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection,…

Ram Dass Says: “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…