Ram Dass Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

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

  Ram Dass

  Life, Spiritual, Use

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.66, Harmony

• 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.

  Ram Dass

  Buddhism, Voice, Space

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

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

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Yoga, Games

• As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Yoga, Long

• The next message you need is always right where you are.

  Ram Dass

  Live In The Moment, Next, Messages

• Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
  By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left?
  There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there.
  No separation anywhere.
  Pure awareness.
  Neither this, nor that.
  Just clarity and being.

  Ram Dass

  Letting Go, Mean, Meditation

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

  Ram Dass

  Life, Opportunity, Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.73, Harmony

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

  Ram Dass

  Life, Stories, Actors

• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  Ram Dass

  Inspiration, Awareness, Contact

• The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc…and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Heart, Compassion

• When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

  Ram Dass

  Unity, World, Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.143, Harmony

• Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

  Ram Dass

  Respect, Philosophy, Philosophical

• The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

  Ram Dass

  Letting Go, Drama, Offering

• Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

  Ram Dass

  Light, Energy, Consciousness

• One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

  Ram Dass

  Fall, Passing Away, Watches

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

  Ram Dass

  Thinking, Mind, Consciousness

• Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.

  Ram Dass

  Moving, Wake Up, Patient

• Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

  Ram Dass

  Rivers, Awareness

• Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

  Ram Dass

  Stuff, Awareness, Self Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.55, Harmony

• Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Home, Soul

• The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Ego, Soul

• A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

  Ram Dass

  Doe, Awareness, Liberated

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.8, Bantam

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

  Ram Dass

  Life, Real, Awareness

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.131, Harmony

• When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

  Ram Dass

  Heart, Mirrors, Practice

• When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Heart, Emotional

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, creativeguide.com. 2013.

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