Category Ram Dass

Ram Dass Says: “You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody

Ram Dass Says: “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…

Ram Dass Says: “Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.”

Ram Dass Says: “When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of…

Ram Dass Says: “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…

Ram Dass Says: “What we’re seeing “out there” is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.”

Ram Dass Says: “What the word God means is the mystery really. It’s the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.”

Ram Dass Says: “What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things…

Ram Dass Says: “We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”

Ram Dass Says: “We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we…