This is a curated selection of Ram Dass quotes on free will (personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Ram Dass’ books (Amazon).
15 Ram Dass Quotes on Free Will
“Watch how creative the mind is in keeping you being somebody doing something … The statement in the Dao ‘one does nothing, and nothing is left undone’ means you’re getting very tired being somebody doing something, and there’s a whole other way of being in which you are the thing itself and whatever happens happens.” — Ram Dass
“If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you would see You Are A Totally Determined Being. The very moment you will wake up Is Totally Determined. How long you will sleep Is Totally Determined. What you will hear of what I say Is Totally Determined. There are no accidents in this business at all. Accidents are just from where you’re looking. To the ego, it looks like it’s miracles and accidents. No miracles. No accidents. It’s just your vantage point that you’re sort of. . . . .stuck in.” — Ram Dass
“Freedom has nothing to do with miracles at all. Miracles are just reminding you that it’s not the way you think it is, and that frees you a little bit to be able to wonder how is it.” — Ram Dass
“Play your role in the Divine Dance, but know it to be such and worship its divinity.” — Ram Dass
“There is writing happening. Maybe thats hard for you to understand. I am here but ‘I’ am not here. I am writing but ‘I’ am not writing.” — Ram Dass
“The simple rule of the game, repeated in the most profound mystical texts, reminds us that it is not my but THY will, O Lord . . . not my trip but THY Trip.” — Ram Dass
“If the truth is in all of us, if you can resonate that truth, everybody has the potential of hearing … The more clearly you hear, the more your actions will be in harmony with the Way . . . with His Will. Then you will truly understand: Not my but Thy will, O Lord.” — Ram Dass
“You are constantly listening to hear what your function is, and the quieter you become, the more you hear your function is that of service … I have adopted the role of listening to the universe to hear the part I play rather than thinking that I am so much of a choosing instrument.” — Ram Dass
“It seems to me that the entire universe of forms is lawful in its unfolding, and that it is not by chance that each event occurs … It merely is a set of lawful interactions.” — Ram Dass
“You do what you do because that’s what the harmony of the universe requires. If I am a potter, I make pots. But who is making the pots? I am not under the illusion that I am making the pots. Pots are. The potter is.” — Ram Dass
“You do what you do, but you do not identify with the doing of it. All ‘doing’ is happening as part of the dance of nature . . . and though your body and mind speed about their business, you remain in your calm center . . . HERE . . . ‘where we all are.’” — Ram Dass
“There is only the rising and the falling of the breath. That’s all there is in the universe. There isn’t even you watching your breath rising and falling which is a thought about it.” — Ram Dass
“It’s not me doing something for you. It is a process in which we are a part in which who’s doing and who isn’t doing is just one dimension of reality, and behind it here I is.” — Ram Dass
“There’s nothing you’ve got to do. There’s no doer to do it anyway.” — Ram Dass
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