Ram Dass

"We as souls prepare our own births, deaths, and in between. It's such an exquisite mechanism. Can you imagine you have picked mother and father. Picked the time in history we were to live. You've even picked the people you walked by on the street. And so have all the rest of us. And so we interact... You have...

The best way to live life is as a soul dancing in and out of your incarnation. A witness. A witness of both internal and external things. We are awareness. You are an awareness and I am an awareness. And our awareness is not separate. Not separate. And awareness is one name for God.

And we are fingers of consciousness for the One Consciousness. And we first identify as separate fingers. Then we identify with the hand. Then we identify with the body. Then all bodies. When we identify with all bodies, then we are identified with our awareness. You can see, hear, taste, etc., doing something. But awareness you can only 'Be'. You can't look for awareness. You can only 'be' awareness...'

Video from Omega Institute
Ram Dass will broadcast live to The Omega Institute from his home on Maui during the annual Ram Dass Retreat at Omega: http://www.eomega.org/omega/workshops
Video was shot on location at his current home in Maui in 2005.
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