“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.” ― Ram Dass
“Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?” – Ram Dass
“We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.” ― Ram Dass
“If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!” – Ram Dass
“Wherever you are, be all there.” ― Ram Dass
“Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.” ― Ram Dass
“The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.” ― Ram Dass
“Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.” ― Ram Dass
“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.” ― Ram Dass
“We’re all just walking each other home.” ― Ram Dass
“Start from where you are – not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.” ― Ram Dass
“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!” Ram Dass
“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.” ― Ram Dass
“It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” ― Ram Dass
“Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.” ― Ram Dass
“Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.” ― Ram Dass
“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
“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
“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.” ― Ram Dass
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.” ― Ram Dass
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.” ― Ram Dass
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.” ― Ram Dass
“You just love until you and the beloved become one.” ― Ram Dass
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” ― Ram Dass
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.” ― Ram Dass
“The world is won by those who let it go.” ― Ram Dass
“We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.” ― Ram Dass
“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.” ― Ram Dass
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.” ― Ram Dass
“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
“Once you get to your soul, then every person you look at is a soul.” ― Ram Dass
“The next message you need is always right where you are.” ― Ram Dass
“You don’t need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.” ― Ram Dass
“Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.” ― Ram Dass
“A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything is liberated.” ― Ram Dass
“Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.” ― Ram Dass
“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.” ― Ram Dass
“When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.” ― Ram Dass
“Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer Now. Say it until you can hear it.” ― Ram Dass
“We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness” – Ram Dass
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being. We are enough.” ― Ram Dass
“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
“Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.” ― Ram Dass
“Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.” ― Ram Dass
“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.” ― Ram Dass
