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“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”
― Sappho

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
― ram dass

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
― Ram Dass

“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”
― ram dass

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”
― ram dass

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
― ram dass

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”
― ram dass

“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”
― ram dass

“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.”
― Ram Dass

“...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...”
― Plato, The Symposium

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice”
― Plato, The Symposium

“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
― Muriel Rukeyser