Ram Dass Quotes

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

There is no self.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

We're all more complex than the person we put out there.

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

When you watch people when they're relaxed, that's when you learn the most about them. That's when you really learn about who they really are.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul