Ram Dass Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

• Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

  Ram Dass

  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

  Ram Dass (2011). “Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

• The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

  Ram Dass

  Perfect, Desire, World

• So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

  Ram Dass

  Karma, Liars, Expectations

• Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

  Ram Dass

  Wise, Spiritual, Order

• The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Moving, Order

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

• Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

  Ram Dass

  Heaven, Desire, Hell

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