Ram Dass

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

“We're all just walking each other home.”

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

“If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”

“Be here now.”

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being.”

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.”

“Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.”

“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.”

“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”

“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.”

“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

“The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is conditioning.”