Ram Dass

“Every breath returns you to now.”

“Loving awareness has no opposite.”

“There is no way to grow that doesn't include suffering.”

“Practice non-attachment. The tighter you hold, the more it slips through your fingers.”

“Every experience is grace. Even the bad ones.”

“As you take in another's pain, your heart breaks open.”

“Seva is service performed selflessly.”

“Each soul has its own unique journey.”

“The relationship with the guru is the relationship with the mystery.”

“Compassion is what we offer the part of ourselves that is suffering.”

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being.”

“We're all just walking each other home.”

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it.”

“The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.”

“In our lives, we are all so tied up with the future, the past, and our concepts about ourselves and others — there is no time to be here, or now, or anywhere.”

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

“Be here now.”