Ram Dass Thinking Quotations

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

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.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.