Ram Dass’ real name is Richard Alpert and he is a spiritual teacher. He has been a psychologist and an author. In the past, Alpert often traveled to many places throughout his life, giving lectures and connecting with the community.
Unfortunately, he suffered a stroke in 1997. He referred to the stroke as an act of grace and taught him about spirituality. He has come up with different types of quotes to help anyone who needs spiritual guidance. He wrote about love, inspiration, success, death, etc.
Our Favorite Ram Dass quotes
1. “When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”
2. “Pain is the mind. It’s the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful – love them.I love them to death!”
3. “We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because We fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.”
4. “In most of our human relationships, We spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
5. “Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”
6. “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.”
7. “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”
8. “Be patient. You’ll know When it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”
9. “As We grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, We have to beat down the separateness.”
10. “Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”
11. “Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
12. “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
13. “When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship – which means something that exists between two or more people – for the most part reinforces people’s separateness as individual entities.”
14. “It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
15. “Together We are all on a journey called life. We are a little broken and a little shattered inside. Each one of us is aspiring to make it to the end. None is deprived of pain here and We have all suffered in our own ways. I think our journey is all about healing ourselves and healing each other in our own special ways. Let’s just help each other put all those pieces back together and make it to the end more beautifully. Let us help each other survive.”
16. “The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once We acknowledge each other as existing, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here We are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.”
17. “As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving: you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”
18. “By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, We are acknowledging that We are all part of one another.”
19. “When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.”
20. “Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those, I didn’t want to go anywhere near them. But the stroke reminded me that I had a body and a brain, that I had to honor them.”
21. “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.”
22. “When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.”
23. “Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.”
24. “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.”
25. “The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.”
26. “The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”
27. “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?”
28. “When your center is firm, When your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.”
29. “Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.”
30. “Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where We realize that in our own being. We are enough.”
31. “As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.”
32. “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.”
33. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”
34. “If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, We are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.”
35. “The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.”
36. “A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.”
37. “Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”
38. “Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”
39. “ In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.”
40. “I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone When they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.”
41. “In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I’m just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.”
42. “From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it’s got you.”
43. “If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.”
44. “Start from where you are – not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.”
45. “Everything changes once We identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
46. “The next message you need is always right where you are.”
47. “Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
Related: The most inspiring quotes from the Bhagavad Gita
Ram Dass – Going Home – Official Netflix Trailer
A poetic meditation on life, death, and the soul’s journey home. Since suffering a life-changing stroke twenty years ago, beloved spiritual teacher Ram Dass has been living at his home on Maui and deepening his spiritual practice — which is centered on love and his idea of merging with his surroundings and all living things. This trailer is a much watch. The show is available FREE on Netflix.
We hope these Ram Dass Quotes inspire your week
Ram Dass has a lot of quotes that make you think. He has one for every occasion. He likes to come up with quotes that will make you feel good even When you are down. He has a way of reaching people with his unique way of thinking.
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