Verhindern Dass Quotes

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs. ~ Ram Dass

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

The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn't matter, because those are paths. They're paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say - heart to heart - that's what satsang is. ~ Ram Dass

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer. ~ Baba Hari Dass

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God. ~ Ram Dass

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different. ~ Ram Dass

Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home. ~ Ram Dass

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy." ~ Ram Dass

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama. ~ Ram Dass

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. ~ Ram Dass

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back;
but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. ~ Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions. ~ Ram Dass

That Bhagavad Gita instruction to be unattached to the fruits of your actions is the key. If you are a parent raising a child, don't get attached to the act of raising the child. That doesn't mean you're not a loving, active parent. Your job is to love and nurture, feed and clothe, take care and guard the safety of the child, and guide him or her with your moral compass. But how the child turns out is how the child turns out. Ultimately he or she is not your child; who they turn out to be is up to God and their own karma. Your ~ Ram Dass

Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure ... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap ... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism. ~ Ram Dass

At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint. ~ Ram Dass

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are. ~ Ram Dass

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair. ~ Ram Dass

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it. ~ Ram Dass

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

We're fascinated by the words
but where we meet is in the silence behind them. ~ Ram Dass

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right. ~ Ram Dass

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception. ~ Ram Dass

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love. ~ Ram Dass

When Maharajji came out you never knew what to expect. He could do the same thing a week in a row until you'd think, "Well, he'll come out at 8:00." Then he might not come out all day, or he might just go into another room and close the door and be in there for two days. You had to learn to expect the unexpected. One day he came out and all he said all day long was "Thul-Thul, Nan-Nan," repeating these words to himself like a mantra. Days went by like this and somebody finally said, "Maharajji, what are you saying?" And it turned out to be an old Behari dialect, and all it meant was "Too big, too big, too little, too little." When he was finally asked why he was saying this, he said, "Oh, all you people, you all live in Thul-Thul, Nan-Nan; you live in the world of judgement. It's always too big or too little. ~ Ram Dass

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. ~ Ram Dass

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru ~ Ram Dass

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace. ~ Ram Dass

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself. ~ Ram Dass

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW ... so you stop asking. ~ Ram Dass

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death. ~ Ram Dass

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

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not? ~ Ram Dass

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

The Ego ages ... the Soul evolves ... and to the Awareness, nothing happened! ~ Ram Dass

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

We're all just walking each other home. - RAM DASS ~ Parvati Markus

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

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them. ~ Ram Dass