110+ Ram Dass Quotes On Death, Healing And Relationships

Ram Dass is an American psychologist and spiritual teacher, best known for his book Be Here Now. He is a former Harvard professor and psychologist who is known for his work in the fields of psychology, spirituality, and psychedelics. He is also a popular speaker and author who has written several books about his spiritual journey and teachings. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ram Dass on death, healing, relationships.

Top 10 Ram Dass Quotes

1. The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
2. I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
3. The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
4. We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
5. The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.
6. We're all just walking each other home.
7. As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
8. Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
9. If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.
10. A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

Ram Dass Image Quotes

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. — Ram Dass

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. — Ram Dass

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Short Quotes

• We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.
• Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
• Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
• Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
• We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
• As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
• Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.
• The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
• Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
• The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Ram Dass Quotes About 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. — Ram Dass

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. — Ram Dass

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times. — Ram Dass

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death. — Ram Dass

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations. — Ram Dass

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. — Ram Dass

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment. — Ram Dass

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Healing

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. — Ram Dass

If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for. — Ram Dass

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Relationships

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

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. — Ram Dass

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Life

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. — Ram Dass

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

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! — Ram Dass

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all. — Ram Dass

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life. — Ram Dass

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening. — Ram Dass

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear. — Ram Dass

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

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about. — Ram Dass

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Peace

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe. — Ram Dass

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

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace. — 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

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within. — Ram Dass

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless. — Ram Dass

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

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

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Change

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it — Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes. — Ram Dass

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions. — Ram Dass

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes. — Ram Dass

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it. — Ram Dass

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are. — Ram Dass

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul. — Ram Dass

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Meditation

Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being. — Ram Dass

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God. — Ram Dass

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it. — Ram Dass

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About God

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag. — Ram Dass

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

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

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. — Ram Dass

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. — Ram Dass

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. — 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, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Nature

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

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. — Ram Dass

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul. — Ram Dass

Old age spiritualizes people naturally — Ram Dass

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into. — Ram Dass

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves. — Ram Dass

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

Ram Dass Quotes About Transformative

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough. — Ram Dass

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. — Ram Dass

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

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Inspirational

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds. — Ram Dass

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru — Ram Dass

I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Important

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — 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

Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation — Ram Dass

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. — Ram Dass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Quotes About Experience

The 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. — Ram Dass

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. — Ram Dass

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. — Ram Dass

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion. — Ram Dass

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer. — Ram Dass

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional. — Ram Dass

Ram Dass Famous Quotes And Sayings

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. — Ram Dass

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it! — Ram Dass

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. — Ram Dass

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself. — Ram Dass

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

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall. — 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

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

Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace. — Ram Dass

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. — Ram Dass

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. — 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

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. — Ram Dass

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. — Ram Dass

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine! — Ram Dass

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean. — Ram Dass

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass

Don't think about the past. Just be here now. — 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

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. — Ram Dass

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. — Ram Dass

The next message you need is always right where you are. — Ram Dass

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe. — Ram Dass

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself! — Ram Dass

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

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. — Ram Dass

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution. — Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. — Ram Dass

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. — Ram Dass

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking. — Ram Dass

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

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. — Ram Dass

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting. — Ram Dass

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time. — Ram Dass

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. — Ram Dass

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

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

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough. — Ram Dass

Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead. — Ram Dass

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. — Ram Dass

The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn't matter, because those are paths. They're paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say - heart to heart - that's what satsang is. — Ram Dass

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity. — Ram Dass

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists. — Ram Dass

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! — Ram Dass

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness. — Ram Dass

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people. — 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

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy. — Ram Dass

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. — Ram Dass

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared. — Ram Dass

Life Lessons by Ram Dass

1. Ram Dass teaches us to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, to be present in the moment, and to live with compassion and kindness.
2. He encourages us to practice self-reflection and to find our own truth, rather than relying on the beliefs of others.
3. He reminds us to be open to learning and growth, to embrace our imperfections, and to strive to live a life of service and love.