Ram Dass Quotes

The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

That's not how politics works - sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a time when change comes unexpectedly. Sometimes change comes with a lot of fireworks, but not always.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

If you don't make bold moves, the world doesn't move forward.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.