It is important to expect ...

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
 Ram Dass

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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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
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
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