Ram Dass Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

One eye sees, the other feels.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

If you would judge, understand.