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is just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Consciousness means freedom from attachment. — Ram Dass

springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Fear is the result of impurity. — Ram Dass

is distinguished from the intellect in that the intellect creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

is distinguished from the heart in that the intellect creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

is a training device to break you out of your attachments.

A mantra is a training device to break you out of your attachments. — Ram Dass

is a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. When one witnesses these thoughts from the perspective of the witness that witnesses being, then those thoughts that are painful are seen from a perspective such that they can be loved.

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful love them. I love them to death! Ram Dass

is distinguished from compassion in that compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness.

is about meeting not in the words, which fascinate, but in the silence behind them.

we're fascinated by the words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

is generally founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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

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

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. (Ram Dass)

is to live in harmony with the world at the moment it is.

Wisdom is to live in harmony with the world at the moment it is. — Ram Dass

is not where we encounter one another. Where we meet is in the silence behind words.

We're fascinated by the words but where we meet is in the silence behind them. (Ram Dass)

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