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Quotations for Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

 

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Ram Dass

Author of the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now, Dr. Richard Alpert, (also known as Ram Dass), is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is dedicated to promoting spiritual growth and awareness. In February 1997, he suffered a stroke, which left him with expressive aphasia. He has said that his stroke was an act of grace and he continues to travel and teach about the nature of consciousness, and about service as a spiritual path, as his health permits. When asked if he could sum up his life’s message Ram Dass replied, “I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.” 

 

“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn’t create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”

 

“The stroke caused me to lose faith, and it was a cold, cold place, and I suddenly realized it was fierce grace… that turned my life around.”

 

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”

           

 

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

 

 

“Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”

 

“When you are forced to bear the unbearable something dies in you.
What dies in you is whom you thought you were that couldn’t bear the unbearable.”

- Ram Dass  (1931- )

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