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  The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

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  Death, Learning, Ego

  Ram Dass (2011). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.95, Random House

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• Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

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  Heart, Mean, People

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• Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

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  Freedom, Journey, Involved

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• Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

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  Letting Go, Can Not

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  We're all just walking each other home.

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  Home, Brotherhood, Be Here Now

  "The Ram Dass interview: Smiling as he teaches about ‘Polishing the Mirror’". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. July 14, 2013.

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• You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

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  Long, Shining, Mind

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• Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.

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  Heart, Animal, Clouds

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.23, Harper Collins

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

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  Life, Stories, Actors

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• Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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  Wise, World Suffering, Training

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Harmony

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• Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

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  Unique, Purpose, Path

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Unity

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• The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

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  Spiritual, Truth, Yoga

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.18, Bantam

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

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  Acceptance, Family Love, Thinking

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• Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

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  Belief, Hell, Has Beens

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• Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

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  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

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  Heart, Mind, Way

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• All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.

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  Buddhism, Voice, Space

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.202, Bantam

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• When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

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  Mourning, Emotion, Busy

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• The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

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• The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

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  Pain, Attachment, Long

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• It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

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  Letting Go, Growth, Difficult

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.7, Harmony

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• The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.

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  Love You, Unconditional Love, Essence

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• 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.

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  Life And Love, Self Esteem, Perfection

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.1, Harper Collins

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

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  Life, Lying, Compassion

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.52, Harmony

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• The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
  
  In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
  
  When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

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  Flower, Heart, Garden

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