Quotes from Ram Dass

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

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.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.