Ram Dass

"If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru."

- Ram Dass

"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing."

- Ram Dass

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

- Ram Dass

"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies."

- Ram Dass

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness."

- Ram Dass

"The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"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."

- Ram Dass

"Your problem is you’re too busy holding on to your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity."

- Ram Dass

"When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru."

- Ram Dass

"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it."

- Ram Dass

"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here."

- Ram Dass

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

- Ram Dass

"We’re all just walking each other home."

- Ram Dass

"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."

- Ram Dass

"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."

- Ram Dass

"Don’t think about the past. Just be here now. Don’t think about the future. Just be here now."

- Ram Dass

"Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it."

- Ram Dass

"Be here now, deeply present with life."

- 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."

- Ram Dass