James Blazor

“Whether this is the first day of the Apocalypse or the first day of the Golden Age, the work remains the same…to love each other and ease as much suffering as possible”

- Ram Dass

In my crusade to change society, I have learned this: society is an abstraction like “loving mankind.” I can only affect those around me, love them as they are, meet them where they are. Each person is society, (and don’t play the Pharisee and ask, “Who is my neighbor?”)”.
-Helga E. Tetzlaff

Love In the Time of Chaos: A Guide to Compassion in 2020 - Part 1 • Ram Dass Love In the Time of Chaos, a 5 part series featuring the collective advice of Be Here Now Network’s teachers on dealing with chaos with love and compassion.

We’ve got to keep our quietness inside.” In the face of so much anger, so many talking heads shrieking incoherently at each other, so much unwanted noise, we have to have that place of quietness within ourselves. We have to be the calm eye in the center of the storm.” #RamDass

“If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.”

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Happy #Bodhiday! Take a moment to remember who you really are, when you’re not being so busy being who you think you are. :)
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Watching BSU sports fans right now is giving, “separate the art from the artist.”

You won’t catch me praising any sports program at BSU until they’re safe for everyone.

BSU football fans have more social & political capital in the volleyball situation than anyone because of the money they bring.

“If you want to be in a peaceful world, you damn well better be peaceful because if you’re full of anger, you’re not going to bring about much peace”- #RamDass

Episode 64 - Making Friends with Change - Ram Dass Change is an opportunity for growth, but it requires consciousness that holds an inner quality of equanimity and openness to the ...

“You and I are in training to be instruments in a society where we can be stable in the presence of change, not holding onto the old system, but being able to move into the unknown without fear.”- #RamDass

“Acceptance means being with things as they really are, which doesn't imply aggressing with or succumbing to. It's acknowledging what is, with compassion toward myself and others.”- Sharon Salzberg
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Episode 27 - Spirituality and Politics - Ram Dass The world is a reflection of our internal state; if we dwell on turmoil, anger and confusion then that's how the world will be perceived to the individual.

“..if we dwell on turmoil, anger and confusion then that is how the world will be perceived. You have to work on yourself first before you can effectively take any social or political action. A quiet mind and and an open heart are important attributes to project into the world.” #RamDass

"Do not wish to be free from every difficult situation but be prepared to meet any kind of trial or test." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

“If you don’t think you’re worthy of love, think again… You’ve got to get into the experience of being in the ‘bath of love.’ When you can be in that bath of love, you are in your soul. Our egos produce fear and anxiety, but our souls produce love.”
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“…you begin to develop a perspective which allows you the space to appreciate the beauty of the personality…At this point the personality becomes just like a flower or a tree. I mean, it’s something so preciously beautiful because it’s a form of nature.”

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“If you are a pickpocket all you see around you are pockets. If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather.”
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YouTube video by Ram Dass - Topic Gratitude (Live)

Now is always a good time to remember who we are and what we have. #Thankful #RamDass

“With a heart full of gratitude. And a mind full of peace. That's how you should love That's how you stay free.”

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We already know who he is, they already know who is, now we focus on who we are. We find and focus on our own certainties. We make our own communities stronger, we listen for our part in how to help. We find that part of ourselves that is stable and ok, even when Rome is burning around us.

Maharajji's Three Teachings • Ram Dass Maharajji said to me, “Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.” …and I have been trying to do what he told ... More...

“I didn’t tell you to read books, I told you to love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God.”
So then, I suddenly realize that this is Maharajji doing a trip on me.” www.ramdass.org/love-everyon... #RamDass

I used to always want to be able to know, to know how, and to know why, about everything…all the time. Over the past couple of years, though, I’ve learned that life works best when I am able to simply surrender to the mystery of all of it. #ramdass

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Alice May Brock, Rick Robbins, and Arlo Guthrie posing for a photo at the famous church in 2022

A week before Thanksgiving, Arlo Guthrie announces the death of his old friend Alice Brock of Alice's Restaurant Massacree fame. She was 83.
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“The game is to be where you are. Be it honestly and as consciously as you know how. Your entire life is a curriculum. Everything you've got on your plate is where the stuff for your enlightenment is. It’s breathtaking when you see the beauty of this design.” #RamDass

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