The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Ram Dass
American spiritual teacher born Richard Alpert; co-author of Be Here Now (1971). Harvard psychologist turned Hindu devotee of Neem Karoli Baba; lived 1931–2019.
10 quotes
We're all just walking each other home.
Be here now.
I can do nothing for you but work on myself... you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru.
The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.
We're fascinated by the words — but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
Everything changes once we identify with being the awareness behind the thoughts.