Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
― Ram Dass

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind 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.”
― Ram Dass

“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
― ram dass

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
― ram dass

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
― ram dass

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”
― ram dass

“Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”
― ram dass

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
― ram dass

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
― Ram Dass

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
― Ram Dass

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.”
― ram dass

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
― ram dass

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.”
― ram dass

“If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”
― ram dass

“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”
― Ram Dass

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

“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”
― ram dass

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”
― Ram Dass

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”
― ram dass

“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
― ram dass

“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
― ram dass

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”
― ram dass

“If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”
― Ram Dass

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
― ram dass