Ram Dass Quotes

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God

It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.