Quotes from Ram Dass

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

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

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

I can go all over the world with Skype.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

I love everybody. Even George Bush.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.