Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

by Ram Dass

Meditation stems from the truth that who you really are is more than who you think you are.

Attachment to the melodrama of your ego is what keeps you from being here now.

Motivations and desires affect our perceptions. We don’t necessarily see things as they are. We see them as we are.

“If a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are his pockets.”

Unless we understand how we are conditioned by our desires, we remain stuck in the reality they create, like a television program with an ad that keeps repeating over and over, implanting a subliminal message while we watch the show.

awakening. From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the soul’s point of view, you develop appreciation.

The only thing you really ever have to offer another person is your own state of being.

attitude of the soul rather than of the ego or personality. It