A Tibetan Lama said to me, ...

A Tibetan Lama said to me, \
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.
 Ram Dass

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
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You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
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Quotes from the same author

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.
 Ram Dass
Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
 Ram Dass
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
 Ram Dass
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
 Ram Dass
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.
 Ram Dass