Ram Dass
Ram Dass Quotes about Fear
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
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.
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions.
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.
Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
he universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you're vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.
I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There is nothing more than this.