Ram Dass Quotes

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.

At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

The journey of the soul is a vast, interconnected web, a meshwork of beings that are all working out their individual karmas in a collective gumbo, retaining the special flavor in each bite of life. But, the mystery of where we're going, in terms of whether we're going to have a planet that's worth living on after we finish abusing it, whether we'll wake up in time and stop ruining the water, land and skies is a big question mark.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.