Quotes from Ram Dass

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

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 fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

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.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

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

When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

Compassion and love, that's all.

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

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!