Being Ram Dass Quotes

“No matter what someone else does to you, never put anyone out of your heart.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Who I am is awareness and deep love, a presence beyond experience within a temporal, changing form. Who I am is a soul, a soul without a name, address, social security number, or biography, who isn't born and doesn't die. I am.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Instead of seeing my life as a personal history or career, I see myself as a pilgrim on a spiritual journey. I am no longer an isolated ego narrating my own storyline; I am a soul, evolving toward oneness. I am a pinprick of awareness in the star field of the cosmos. I am part of it all.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“When you lose your fear of death, you gain a love of life.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“True love is unconquerable and irresistible,” he said, “and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Drugs had changed me from a selfish, striving academic in search of recognition and power to someone who was aware of the soul. Psychedelics had introduced me to compassion, to recognizing and feeling love for others. Harvard seemed trivial by comparison.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“feeling peaceful, or less than fully loving and compassionate, I must act. You can’t wait around to be enlightened. There’s no way not to act while you’re in physical form. Krishna says as much in the Bhagavad Gita. As long as you’re incarnate, you’re acting. You can’t not do anything—if you don’t get out and vote, you’re still affecting the outcome. Silence may itself be an acquiescence to injustice or unnecessary suffering. Since I must act, I do the best I can to act consciously and compassionately. I try to make every action an exercise in liberation. Because the truth that comes from freedom, the power that comes from freedom, and the love and compassion that”
― Ram Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“I don't know,' I replied. 'But looking at you, it's like I see inside a burning house. The house is being destroyed, just as your body is being consumed. But you and I are still here. The body will go, and you'll still be there. It seems to me, the way you and I are connected isn't really defined by this disintegrating body. You sound just like you've always sounded. I feel like I've always felt. Your body is decaying before us, but the way you and I love each other, I just believe that love transcends death.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Power comes from love, not the other way around.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“I began to live in love as a state of being. It was as if love was no longer a verb with an object. In that state, I simply became a loving being, an emitter of love. It's a two-way street: as you become a loving being, the Universe is loving you. You are at home in the universe. hOMe, hOMe on the range.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“...we are all fellow human beings walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“this”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“He had no idea what a Ram Dass was, but he was open to learning.”
― Ram Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“Though Peter claimed not to be spiritual, he had found a peaceful place, as I had decades ago, in Quaker meeting”
― Ram Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“But the arrival of the paramedics and my not being able to talk or move the right side of my body was a potent sales pitch for reality.”
― Ram Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass

“I realized how death”
― Ram Dass, Being Ram Dass