Quotes from Ram Dass

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

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

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

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.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

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.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.