Ram Dass Quotes

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen) we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained: the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations.... May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.