Ram Dass Quotes

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

To Love is to reach God.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.