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Quotes About Awareness

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
~ Ram Dass
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
~ Ram Dass
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
~ Ram Dass
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
~ Ram Dass
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!
~ Ram Dass
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.
~ Ram Dass
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
~ Ram Dass
Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching
~ Ram Dass
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.
~ Ram Dass
When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
~ Ram Dass
What we're seeing out there is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
~ Ram Dass
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
~ Ram Dass
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.
~ Ram Dass
I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.
~ Ram Dass
When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
~ Ram Dass
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.
~ Ram Dass
IT'S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.
~ Ram Dass
Ephrem the Syrian says, 'Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.' "—Way of a Pilgrim
~ Ram Dass
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
~ Ram Dass
And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.
~ Ram Dass
How are we to know that the mind has become concentrated? Because the idea of time will vanish. The more time passes un-noticed the more concentrated we are . . . All time will have the tendency to come and stand in the one present. So the definition is given, when the past and present come and stand in one, the mind is said to be concentrated."—Vivekananda
~ Ram Dass
Oh! I'm going to do good things for my child. Balony! That's all ego. Just work on yourself And: Everytime you work on yourself, you get calmer you hear more you sense more you are more you're more present What are you offering a child? not a set of social roles passing in the night. . . . youre offering a child here and now — ness The treasure of consciousness The treasure of awareness.
~ Ram Dass
The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.
~ Ram Dass
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.
~ Ram Dass