Ram Dass Life Quotations

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.