Ram Dass Quotes

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

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

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

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

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

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.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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 Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

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

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.