Top 150 Ram Dass Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

2. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

— Ram Dass

3. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

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4. “Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

— Ram Dass

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5. “Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.”

— Ram Dass

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6. “I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”

— Ram Dass

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7. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.”

— Ram Dass

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8. “The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”

— Ram Dass

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9. “Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”

— Ram Dass

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10. “As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”

— Ram Dass

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11. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”

— Ram Dass

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12. “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

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13. “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”

— Ram Dass

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14. “Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?”

— Ram Dass

15. “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.”

— Ram Dass

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16. “You have all the time in the world, but don’t waste a moment.”

— Ram Dass

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17. “Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.”

— Ram Dass

18. “There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.”

— Ram Dass

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19. “The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”

— Ram Dass

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20. “There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.”

— Ram Dass

21. “Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

— Ram Dass

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22. “Don’t take yourself so personally.”

— Ram Dass

23. “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.”

— Ram Dass

24. “This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.”

— Ram Dass

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

— Ram Dass

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26. “Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.”

— Ram Dass

27. “I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

— Ram Dass

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28. “If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.”

— Ram Dass

29. “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

— Ram Dass

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30. “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

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31. “Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.”

— Ram Dass

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32. “All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

— Ram Dass

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33. “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

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

— Ram Dass

35. “Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”

— Ram Dass

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36. “One of the ego’s favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.”

— Ram Dass

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37. “If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.”

— Ram Dass

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38. “The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain – to just be with it all.”

— Ram Dass

39. “If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.”

— Ram Dass

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40. “Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.”

— Ram Dass

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41. “Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.”

— Ram Dass

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42. “The ego is a tool. You don’t separate it. It’s a tool for the spirit.”

— Ram Dass

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43. “Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.”

— Ram Dass

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44. “The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.”

— Ram Dass

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

— Ram Dass

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46. “External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.”

— Ram Dass

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47. “The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.”

— Ram Dass

48. “The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.”

— Ram Dass

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49. “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.”

— Ram Dass

50. “Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.”

— Ram Dass

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