Ram Dass

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Be here now.”

“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.”

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