Quotes from Ram Dass

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

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

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

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.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.