111 Awakening Ram Dass Quotes To Find Yourself Here Now

Every hustler needs some peace. A chance to quieten down and soak up more of the world. While it’s not so popular in a world of social media, smart phones and endless notifications, we all need some down time. By clearing the head, we can open up to new opportunities and accelerate the growth of our side-hustle or business.

Ram Dass spent a lifetime finding moments of tranquility and wrote numerous books. His most popular book, Be Here Now, sold millions of copies and brought spirituality mainstream at a time where social media didn’t exist. If you need to find yourself now, then these quotes are the perfect starting point.

1. The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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2. Be here now.

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

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4. Once you get to your soul, then every person you look at is a soul.

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

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6. Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

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7. Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

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8. Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

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

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10. Love is the most transformative medicine for Love slowly transforms you into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

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11. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

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12. When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

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14. Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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

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16. As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

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17. What we’re seeing “out there” is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clinging’s of our minds.

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18. We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

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19. There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

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20. You just love until you and the beloved become one.

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21. Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your Transformation. Use it!

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22. My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

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23. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.

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24. You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

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25. Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

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26. Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

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27. What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

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28. Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

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

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30. By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

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31. It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

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

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33. 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.

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34. As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

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35. Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

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36. Start from where you are, not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.

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37. Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

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

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39. The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it–just don’t get lost in it.

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

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41. If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.

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42. The game is not about becoming somebody; it’s about becoming nobody.

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43. Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

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44. 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.

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45. When you are causing suffering to others, you are causing suffering to yourself.

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46. In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

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

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48. From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the soul’s point of view, you develop appreciation.

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49. Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

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50. Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.

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51. A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

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52. To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

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53. It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!

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54. I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

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55. Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Do not alter your innate wakefulness. Fear not appearances. There is nothing more than this.

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56. I’m not interested in being a “lover.” I’m interested in only being love.

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57. We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there’s a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.

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58. We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness.

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59. 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.

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60. 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.

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

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62. I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

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63. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

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

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65. Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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66. The more conscious that a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.

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67. Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

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68. The world is won by those who let it go.

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

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70. Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.

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71. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

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72. A moment comes when “other” is no longer other.

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73. We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

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74. 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.

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75. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

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76. As one individual changes, the system changes.

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77. Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell.

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78. 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.

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79. The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.

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80. Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

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81. It’s the pysical plane, the astral plane, the causal plane – all the conceptual levels of form, all the way back to pure idea.

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82. As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

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83. If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

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84. 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.

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85. When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.

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86. Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.

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87. If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

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88. A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.

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89. Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.

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90. Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair

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91. When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

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92. It’s better to see god in everything than to try to figure it out.

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93. Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

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94. I must really be crazy, now—because craziness is where everybody agrees about something,—except you!

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95. I am without form without limit. Beyond space – beyond time. I am in everything. Everything is me. I am the bliss of the universe. I am everything.

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96. Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.

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97. When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

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98. Just relax and trust the process.

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99. You don’t need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

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100. Don’t anticipate. Don’t yearn for things of the past. Let the past go with forgiveness. And let the future go with no anticipation.

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101. 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.

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102. Emptiness is not really empty; emptiness is fully of everything. The ‘everything’ just isn’t manifest.

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103. I can resonate with you in the highest place that I am. So: I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.

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104. The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

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105. Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

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106. The next message you need is always right where you are.

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107. All acts of healing are ultimately ourselves healing our Self.

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

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109. The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

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110. The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

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111. Wherever you are, be all there.

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