Ram Dass Quotes

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Your nature is the Buddha.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Spirituality has greatly enriched me and I hope it does so to others, too.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things.

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.