Quotes for All
Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it’s wrong. I mean it’s a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it … Read more
I like walking in the pool. That isn’t what makes me feel spiritual. But alive. Ram Dass
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it’s a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there’s a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect. Ram Dass
And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you’ll get far more love than you ever got out there. Ram Dass
A man said to me, You talk to your dead guru? And I said, Yeah. He said, That’s in your imagination. And I said, Yeah! Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere. Ram Dass
As I’ve gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul – people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then … Read more
I love everybody. Even George Bush. Ram Dass
When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. Ram Dass
As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we’re playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept. Ram Dass
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn’t want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that. Ram Dass