Ram Dass

Ram Dass

Author of "Be Here Now."

An American spiritual teacher and author known for his book "Be Here Now," which became a seminal text in the exploration of Eastern spirituality in the West. His teachings integrate elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Western psychology, emphasizing the importance of living in the present moment and the transformative power of love and compassion. Ram Dass’s work has influenced many in their journey towards personal and spiritual growth.

Ram Dass Quotes about Thoughts

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  • If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
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  • I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these together. Things like karma yoga, bhakti yoga, conscious dying, conscious aging. Consciousness.
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  • 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.
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  • Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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  • Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.
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  • If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.
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  • I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.
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  • Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.
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  • Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.
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