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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

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…

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.”