Ram Dass Quotes

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

My aim in life is not to judge.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

It's important to accept people for the reality of what they are, who they are, whatever that is and heal from that yourself.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.