Ram Dass

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

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.

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

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

What’s the difference?’ I asked him, ‘Between the love of your life and your soulmate?’ ‘One is a choice, and one is not.’

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejections have fallen like tree branches in my path.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.