Top 150 Ram Dass Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Ram Dass

52. “Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.”

— Ram Dass

53. “We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

— Ram Dass

54. “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

— Ram Dass

55. “Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.”

— Ram Dass

56. “You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”

— Ram Dass

57. “Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

— Ram Dass

58. “Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”

— Ram Dass

59. “Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn’t make any difference to who you truly are.”

— Ram Dass

60. “When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.”

— Ram Dass

61. “The gift you offer another person is just your being.”

— Ram Dass

62. “Love flows. Love doesn’t know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.”

— Ram Dass

63. “If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love.”

— Ram Dass

64. “Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.”

— Ram Dass

65. “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

66. “As one individual changes, the system changes.”

— Ram Dass

67. “All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, ‘the kingdom of heaven is within you.’ Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.”

— Ram Dass

68. “The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.”

— Ram Dass

69. “Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.”

— Ram Dass

70. “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

71. “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

72. “Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.”

— Ram Dass

73. “Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”

— Ram Dass

74. “In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.”

— Ram Dass

75. “We’re sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we’re not getting any sunshine!”

— Ram Dass

76. “The next message you need is always right where you are.”

— Ram Dass

77. “If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.”

— Ram Dass

78. “You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”

— Ram Dass

79. “I like to look at a tree and see that it’s love. Don’t you?”

— Ram Dass

80. “I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.”

— Ram Dass

81. “Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”

— Ram Dass

82. “Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

— Ram Dass

83. “All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.”

— Ram Dass

84. “Nature is really important because it’s a manifestation of love that hasn’t been run through human minds.”

— Ram Dass

85. “The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.”

— Ram Dass

86. “Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we’re always running scared.”

— Ram Dass

87. “If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.”

— Ram Dass

88. “Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.”

— Ram Dass

89. “Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.”

— Ram Dass

90. “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”

— Ram Dass

91. “When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.”

— Ram Dass

92. “Our culture’s zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.”

— Ram Dass

93. “Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

— Ram Dass

94. “If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.”

— Ram Dass

95. “We’ve gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul’s only motive is to merge with the Beloved.”

— Ram Dass

96. “The person who says, ‘I’m enlightened’ probably isn’t.”

— Ram Dass

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

— Ram Dass

98. “Give it all up and you can have it all.”

— Ram Dass

99. “We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.”

— Ram Dass

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

— Ram Dass