Ram Dass

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

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
—Ram Dass

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
—Ram Dass

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
—Ram Dass