427 Quotes by Ram Dass

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

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 giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.