27 March 2022

Week 2022-12: Ram Dass - Collected Quotes

"Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery." (Ram Dass)

"If you think you are so enlighted go and spend a week with your parents." (Ram Dass)

"Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them." (Ram Dass)

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back." (Ram Dass)

"Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought ‘I,’ and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being." (Ram Dass)

"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another."

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." (Ram Dass , "Love Serve Remember")

"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering." (Ram Dass and Paul Gorman)

"We're all just walking each other home." (Ram Dass)

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

"Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness." (Ram Dass)

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