Ram Dass

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

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.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Right now, it’s like this.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.