Ram Dass Quotes

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.

Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this

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.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.