Ram Dass Quotes

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop stumbling, light is not possible.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.