- Ram Dass: We've lived longer than we think, you're traveling through lives. "What did you learn in this life?" Considerable joy. When you're in your soul and you love something, and the things become melding, melding. So you love something and you become one with it. All of us... one. All of us, one. Yeah. One consciousness, one consciousness. And that's the way in which the world could right itself. Start with your peace, your love, your compassion, and go from there. And then... love everything. Everything. Let's all walk each other home.
- Ram Dass: My life has been a dance between power and love. The first part, until Harvard, power, power, power, power. Up until drugs, I thought power was the end-all and be-all. Because I was a little individual. Then, drugs and on: Love, Love, Love, Love. My first mushroom trip, it was so profound that I saw that radiance was inside, and I said, "I'm home! I'm home! I'm home!" My life was from roles to soul.
- Ram Dass: Most of what we encounter are thoughts. I project not only the names, but values. So that's around judging everything. Without those projections, I can see everything. Life is but a dream, the incarnation is a dream. This incarnation suggests there are other incarnations. People don't seem to know that they are a soul, that their consciousness goes way further than the incarnation. We pinch ourselves to know we're alive in this life. The soul is in the heart level. That's the entry point. And then you mantra, "I am Loving Awareness, I am Loving Awareness, I am Loving Awareness..." Identify with Loving Awareness, and then go through the veil, the consciousness veil. Going through that veil is part of spiritual practice, and the main part of dying. Make friends with change. There's change in the body, in it's strength, memory. Death is change, just another one. If you're identified with your soul, death is a snap. Soul goes birth, death, birth, death, birth death... death is another step towards home.
- Ram Dass: When I met Maharji, it was unconditional Love. It was wonderful, to be loved that way. I said, "I'm home, I'm home..." A guru is the doorway to God, to consciousness, to the One. Ram. "With psychedelics," Maharaji said, "you can go into the room in which Christ and Buddha exist, but you only stay a few minutes." A few minutes. Every time I would sit with Maharaji, time would stop. It was like the moment expanded. He lived in eternity.
- Ram Dass: My guru told me the stroke would be grace... I don't wish you the stroke, but I wish you the grace from the stroke.