Quotes by Ram Dass

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

Love

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.

— Ram Dass

Love

I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

— Ram Dass

Love

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

Wisdom

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.

— Ram Dass

Happiness

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

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Wisdom

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.

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Wisdom

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.

— Ram Dass

Life

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.

— Ram Dass

Friendship

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

— Ram Dass

Love

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

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Wisdom

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

— Ram Dass

Wisdom

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

— Ram Dass

Wisdom

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

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Wisdom

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.

— Ram Dass

Love

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

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Wisdom

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

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Wisdom

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.

— Ram Dass

Love

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

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Wisdom

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

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Life

I can go all over the world with Skype.

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Life

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

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Wisdom

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

— Ram Dass

Love

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.

— Ram Dass

Life