"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

"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