Top 150 Ram Dass Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that’s spreading love heart to heart to heart. That’s my approach of my work.”

— Ram Dass

102. “Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.”

— Ram Dass

103. “When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

— Ram Dass

104. “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.”

— Ram Dass

105. “When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t.”

— Ram Dass

106. “When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.”

— Ram Dass

107. “It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.”

— Ram Dass

108. “As you look at many people’s lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.”

— Ram Dass

109. “I’ve got to love the souls of people. Because I can’t love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.”

— Ram Dass

110. “I’m not interested in being a “lover.” I’m interested in only being love.”

— Ram Dass

111. “Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”

— Ram Dass

112. “The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

— Ram Dass

113. “The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.”

— Ram Dass

114. “Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

— Ram Dass

115. “To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.”

— Ram Dass

116. “We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.”

— Ram Dass

117. “Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.”

— Ram Dass

118. “I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.”

— Ram Dass

119. “Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.”

— Ram Dass

120. “The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.”

— Ram Dass

121. “Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.”

— Ram Dass

122. “If you keep examining your mind, you’ll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you’re experiencing.”

— Ram Dass

123. “We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.”

— Ram Dass

124. “The richness of a moment comes when it’s both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.”

— Ram Dass

125. “The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.”

— Ram Dass

126. “Institutions don’t change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.”

— Ram Dass

127. “The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it – just don’t get lost in it.”

— Ram Dass

128. “When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.”

— Ram Dass

129. “We’re being trained through our incarnations – trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”

— Ram Dass

130. “Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

— Ram Dass

131. “Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it’s the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.”

— Ram Dass

132. “Behind everyone’s learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.”

— Ram Dass

133. “Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.”

— Ram Dass

134. “Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.”

— Ram Dass

135. “When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.”

— Ram Dass

136. “If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.”

— Ram Dass

137. “The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”

— Ram Dass

138. “By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.”

— Ram Dass

139. “The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.”

— Ram Dass

140. “There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life’s events.”

— Ram Dass

141. “Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.”

— Ram Dass

142. “It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”

— Ram Dass

143. “Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That’s what we’re doing and we’re using our incarnations as teaching devices.”

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144. “You see that who you are isn’t moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.”

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145. “There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

— Ram Dass

146. “You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart.”

— Ram Dass

147. “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

148. “Power comes from love, not the other way around.”

— Ram Dass

149. “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

150. “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