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Ram Dass
Ram Dass
American Psychologist
Born: Apr 6, 1931
Being Death Love Me People You
Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Phil McGraw Wayne Dyer
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 Me You Love Me Active State Our Object No Reason Emotion Unconditional Unconditional Love Part Without Exists Being Love You Us Much Really Reason Deep Each Inner
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
Success Love You Will Matters Earn Physical Economic Take No-One Perfection Self-Esteem None Always Existing Lack Just Being Anything Loved Shortcomings Social Your Who Away Here
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 People Compassion Will Fall Down Our Religions More Beat Between Yes Begin Nations Then Separateness Barriers Grow Consciousness
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
Experience Path Negative Important Nothing Every Take Merely Steps Expect Proceed Including
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. Ram Dass
Saying Me You Only Hear Which
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
You Heart Mind Rest Busy Thinking Stay Head Doing Up Where Your Here
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent. Ram Dass
You Content Discontent Still Moving Your Even
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. Ram Dass
You Free Think Possible Escape
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. Ram Dass
Reality Our Out Never Tasty Turn Plans
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
God Faith Time Journey Joy Strong Simplicity Enough Our Kind Taken Primary Towards Beyond Identification Ultimately Quietness Psyche Just Us Body Sufficient
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 Needs Together Sense Other Others Relationships Our Security Some Come Identified Because Very Often Refuge Much Fulfill Each Level Symbiotic Need
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. Ram Dass
You Try Perspective Whatever Born Push Hindu Deal Got Just Away Need
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. Ram Dass
Honor Accident Ways Find Born Judaism Belief Needed
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. Ram Dass
God Inspiration Contact Making Itself
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
Death Culture Our Out Detachment Both Allowing Come Openly Although Still Western Western Culture Discussed Intensely Closet Experienced Dying Moment Each Present
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 Day Heart Every Universe All Day Out Guru Hang Thing
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities. Ram Dass
Relationship Together People Own Others Relationships Range Ways See Something Entities My Own More More People Individual Part Between Look Most Exists Which Means Separateness Reasons Wide Wide Range Two
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 Myself You Together Yourself Space Met State Entered Guru Oneness Entrance Go Truly Being Place Then
Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love. Ram Dass
Love Me Love Is Power First Meeting Point Unconditional Unconditional Love Powers Him His Impressed Subsequently Realized Really Pulled
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 God Me People Remember Mind Thought First Looking Grass Visit Embarrassed Guru Directly Unconditional Unconditional Love Had He Know Looked Read Up Going Want Then Really Shown Things
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 Example Ocean Universe Tree See Like Wheelchair Body
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say. Ram Dass
Death Me People Example Whatever Pain Others Way Say Stroke Given More Perfectly Feel Come Like Know Safe Another Another Way Ultimately Happens Them Help Lets Serve Deeply Harm
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. Ram Dass
Life Free My Life Those Physical See Look Got Go Want Wanted Psychological Anywhere Them Plane Near
I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me. Ram Dass
Me World Mind Focus Stroke Feel Because Vulnerable Around Understand Then

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