Love Ram Dass Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out. — Ram Dass

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion
and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. — Ram Dass

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds. — Ram Dass

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love. — Ram Dass

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 is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. — Ram Dass

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are 'together' in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sharing a common state together. That state exists in you and it exists in me. — Ram Dass

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation. — Ram Dass

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. — Ram Dass

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there. — Ram Dass

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness. — Ram Dass

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. — Ram Dass

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

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. — Ram Dass

We're being trained through our incarnations
trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering. — Ram Dass

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love. — Ram Dass

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. — 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

Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we're all just walking each other home. I love that. I try to live by it. — Anne Lamott

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God. — Ram Dass

A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated. — Ram Dass

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession. — Ram Dass

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

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you? — Ram Dass

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart. — Ram Dass

Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love. — Ram Dass

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love — Ram Dass

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass

Compassion and love, that's all. — Ram Dass

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! — Ram Dass

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart. — 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

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all. — Ram Dass

Souls love. That's what souls do. Egos don't, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you'll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don't leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it's all one. It's one energy. — Ram Dass

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

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another. — Ram Dass

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply inner connected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act. — Ram Dass

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

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

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. — Ram Dass

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. — Ram Dass

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine. — Ram Dass

If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun. — 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

I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip. — Ram Dass

I'm ensconced in the soul ... and I look around and everything is love. — Ram Dass

The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end. — Ram Dass

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. — 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 greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow. — Ram Dass

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. — Ram Dass

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

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

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom. — Ram Dass

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom. — Ram Dass

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

When you live in love
You see love everywhere you look.
You are literally in love with everyone you look at. — Ram Dass