Ram Dass Quotes

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

Replacing physical priorities with spiritual priorities can change everything.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

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.

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

For the majority of mankind, religion is a habit, or, more precisely, tradition is their religion. Though it seems strange, I think that the first step to moral perfection is your liberation from the religion in which you were raised. Not a single person has come to perfection except by following this way.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.