Cow Cuddling

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Forget touching grass. Cow cuddling is the new best way to get grounded.

Everything was quiet. It was just me and Barley. There was nothing left to do other than take in the calming company of this peaceful bovine.  

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.

― Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
― Ram Dass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

― Ram Dass

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

― Ram Dass

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts... if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

― Ram Dass

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.     
― Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

― Ram Dass

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

― Ram Dass

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

― Ram Dass

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
― Ram Dass

 The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.”
― Ram Dass

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.

― Ram Dass

 Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

― Ram Dass

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.

― Ram Dass

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

― Ram Dass

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

― Ram Dass