Ram Dass
Ram Dass Quotes about God
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.
When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
Suffering brings me so close to God.
I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.
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.
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.
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.
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its 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.
The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc… and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally.
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.
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.
Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.