Quotes from Ram Dass

When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."—A. Einstein

The world is won by those who let it go.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

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.

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.

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

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

Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing.

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

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are 'together' in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sharing a common state together. That state exists in you and it exists in me.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

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

Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp."—Rabazar Tarzs

IT'S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.

A moment's reflection will show you that you play many roles in the course of a day . . . and that who you are from moment to moment changes. There is the angry you, and the kind you, the lazy you, the lustful you—hundreds of different you's. Gurdjieff points out that sometimes one "you" does something for which all the other "you's" must pay for years or possibly the rest of this life.