Ram Dass Quotes

We are what our thoughts have made us

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

At times I think and at times I am.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

You know, most people really don't know me.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

Life is but thought.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.