Quotes from Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

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 particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

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

Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.