Ram Dass Quotes

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.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

Whatever 'in love' means.

Personal love is concentrated universal love.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

To love is the half of to believe.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.

I fell in love at 18 when I was in college, and that's probably why I know what it's like to be in love, and I can express it in a better way.

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.