Ram Dass Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

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  Heart, Judging, Live In The Moment

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.37, Harmony

• When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

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  Heart, Unconditional Love, Safe

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

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  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Compassion

• Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

  Ram Dass

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

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  Spiritual, Jobs, Heart

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.39, Sounds True

• My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

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  Heart, Skills, Mind

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

• 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

• Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

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  Heart, Mind, Flow

  "Here & Now" – Episode 30 – Risk Being Human (Transcription), beherenownetwork.com. July 14, 2014.

• 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

• 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.

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  Yoga, Heart, Practice

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

• When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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  Heart, Mind, Easier

• I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

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  Heart, Spreading Love, Turns

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

• I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

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  Heart, Guru, Hanging Out

• The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.

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  Pain, Heart, Caring

  Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.211, Knopf

• Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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  Heart, Mind, Way

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.71, Sounds True

• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, Mind

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

• Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

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  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

  Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.62, Knopf

• Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

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  Heart, Intuition, Mind

• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.

• Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

  Ram Dass

  Heart, Fundamentals, World

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

• I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

  Ram Dass

  Hate, Heart, Fighting

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