Ram Dass Death Quotes

#1. Time flies when you are anxious!

Maria Bamford

#2. If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

Steve Guttenberg

#3. I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Carine Roitfeld

#4. Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Ram Dass

#5. Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Theodore Levitt

#6. Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Ram Dass

#7. Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

Ram Dass

#8. The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Ram Dass

#9. I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn't bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn't be lost.

Alice Hoffman

#10. Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Ram Dass

#11. The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

Ram Dass

#12. Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars ... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

Richard Dawkins

#13. When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.

Bauvard

#14. Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Ram Dass

#15. What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

Ram Dass

#16. The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Ram Dass

#17. In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Ram Dass

#18. This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.

Rebecca Wells

#19. Repression is sometimes a precious gift our minds offer us when faced with trauma.

Andrea Clemens

#20. If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Justin Long

#21. When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation.

Auliq Ice

#22. People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Pope Francis

#24. Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Ram Dass

#25. The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

Ram Dass

#26. It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

Ralph Ellison