Ram Dass

"The spiritual journey is a gradual awakening to truth."

"Your presence is your greatest offering."

"Life is not about immortality; it's about legacy."

"Surrender is not defeat; it's freedom."

"The universe supports those who align with their truth."

"Every soul is on its own perfect journey."

"Love is the answer to every question."

"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't something imposed on you by gurus."

"We're all just walking each other home."

"The most important thing is to love as fiercely as you can, because life is so precarious."

"When you go out into the woods and you look at the trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You understand that tree is flourishing, it is doing the best it can."

"If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family."

"Healing is about loving the parts of ourselves we judge."

"The job is not to find the right person. The job is to love the person you found, the right way."

"You are responsible for everything you do, and though you may have a heredity and environment that influences heavily the way you behave, you are also responsible for changing that."

"In the end, we're all just trying to go home."

"There are two things to do about the Gospel - believe it and behave it."

"The path to liberation is the path of compassion."

"Just by being yourself, you're serving the universe."

"You can feel unconditional love from an animal. They don't judge you, they don't hold grudges."

"The only thing you need to do is remember who you are."

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

"Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It's something you realize you already are."

"The guru is just a mirror for your own truth."

"We're all just consciousness pretending to be individuals."

"The most radical thing you can do is be fully present with another person."

"Fear is just faith in evil instead of good."

"You can't hurry love. You have to let it unfold at its own pace."

"The heart is the only thing worth breaking."

"When you get to the place where you understand that love is the most important thing, then you understand grace."