Ram Dass Quotes

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Your nature is the Buddha.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.