Be Here Now Quotes
Be Here Now by Ram Dass is a powerful book that has inspired many on their spiritual journeys. It’s full of wisdom about living in the present moment and finding inner peace. In this article, we’ve collected some of the best quotes from Be Here Now to help you appreciate its teachings. These quotes are simple but deep, offering valuable lessons for a more mindful and meaning life.
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1. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
2. The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
3. I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.
4. We’re fascinated by the words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
5. The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
6. The spiritual journey is individual and highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
7. Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell.
8. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
9. It is only when you can see your own pain that you can be with others’ pain.
10. I would say that the key to life is to be in flow.
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11. Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
12. Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
13. We’re all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another.
14. What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
15. The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being.
16. Don’t think about the past. Just be here now. Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.
17. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is an end to our desires or whether we want to continue our desires forever.
18. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters.
19. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
20. 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.
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