Ram Dass Quotes

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.