Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ram Dass

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. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

Ram Dass

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

Ram Dass

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

Ram Dass

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Ram Dass

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.

Ram Dass

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.

Ram Dass

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

Ram Dass

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

Ram Dass

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Ram Dass

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Ram Dass

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Ram Dass

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

Ram Dass

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Ram Dass

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

Ram Dass

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

Ram Dass

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation...

Charles Davenport

We were really locked, ... Two or three people on each side had said 'I'm not budging. I've heard all the evidence. I'm not moving an inch.

Scott Johnson

We have been hearing for some time now that Citizens' rates are competitive in that line, and that's not good.

Steve McClaren

We have got to wait to hear from the Nigerian FA, so there's still a long way to go before we can actually say he's with us for January.

We're all concerned. I haven't heard anything about my program.

We really do love playing music. Most of what we hear from people at our live shows is, 'I had a lot of fun.' Well, I had fun, too.

We really didn't hear too much from him. At first, that worried me. I thought he might have died. Every once in a while, we'd hear kind of a cry. Like a pitiful cry.

We wanted to see if women who had hysterectomies differed in some way from those who did not, and whether the hysterectomy itself had an influence on heart disease.

We'll just have to wait until we hear back from them.

Brad Richards

We all know what to do. We've all been together long enough to know what to do and what makes the power play work. We're just not doing it. It's the obvious thing and I'm sick of it. We're all sick of hearing it.

Gerald Wallace

Tonight just showed the heart of this team. We were lousy and horrible in the first half, but we turned it around in the second half.

To see the destruction is one thing. But to see it with your heart makes a world of difference.

We all help each other. When Mike Haley was laid up with his heart problem two years ago, Jack was the first one on the job.

Ron Gardenhire

We all heard about this right before lunch. That pretty much takes away from anything you do at the ballpark.

To me, Herb has been like the heart and soul of the board. He is a one-of-a-kind.

The reason I wanted to do this is to keep this music alive, ... That's really important, that the young people really get to hear what jazz is from these masters that'll be there.

There is nothing pretty about his game. But he comes to play every day - he puts his heart in it.

There is still a very real possibility that we may not hear anything during that whole period of time.