Ram Dass

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
—Ram Dass

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.
—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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
—Ram Dass

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
—Ram Dass

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.
—Ram Dass

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