Ram Dass Quotes About Ego

Quotes about: Ego

• 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.

  Ram Dass

  Death, Learning, Ego

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

• 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.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Soul, Looks

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

• Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Moving, Practice

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

  Ram Dass

  Love, Thinking, Loving Someone

  Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das (2010). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.27, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Ram Dass

  Heart, Animal, Clouds

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

• The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ego

• 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

• At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Who We Are, Moments

• 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.

  Ram Dass

  Thinking, Ego, Scare

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.65, Sounds True

• I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

  Ram Dass

  Yoga, Heart, Practice

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

• We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Soul, Beloved

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.38, Harmony

• The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Deny, Preoccupation

• A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

  Ram Dass

  Oneness, Ego, Evolution

• One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Doubt, Path

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.177, Bantam

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

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Ego, Soul

• It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Soul, Different

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

  Ram Dass

  Thinking, Two, Ego

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

• The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Tools, Spirit

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

• Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Soul, Cracks

• As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.

  Ram Dass

  Ocean, Land, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

  Ram Dass

  Miracle, Ego, Looks

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

• Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

  Ram Dass

  Ego, Fear Of Death

• When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

  Ram Dass

  Practice, Ego, Soul

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