NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 402

 

• ·       “We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.” – Ram Dass

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

  ·       “In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “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 up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!” – Ram Dass

  ·       “Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.” – Ram Dass

  ·       “Be here, now!” – Ram Dass

  ·       “Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.” – Ram Dass