Rama Quotes

When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.

If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations.

Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.