Ram Dass Quotes

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.

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.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
The secret isn't that you're not being told.
The secret is that you're not able to hear.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there — so there the mountain stays.

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.

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

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

We're being trained through our incarnations — trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

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

"A moment comes when "other" is no longer other."

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature, then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart — not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, “I am.