Ram dass Life Quotes

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

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me

- Ram dass

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise

- Ram dass

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

- Ram dass

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

- Ram dass

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

- Ram dass

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

- Ram dass

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

- 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

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight

- Ram dass

The most exquisite paradox, As soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

- Ram dass

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

- Kurt Cobain

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

- Rudyard Kipling

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein