
Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

In the West people treat awareness as a thought process rather than a heart-mind process.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
When I wake up in the morning, I’m aware of the air, the fan on my ceiling, I’ve got to love them. I am loving awareness. But if I’m an ego, I’m judging everything as it relates to my own survival. The air might give me a cold that will turn into pneumonia. I’m always afraid of something in the world that I have to defend myself against. If I’m ide
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That witness consciousness is part of the heart-mind.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
We start to see each experience as a teaching to be brought into awareness and loved until we are free from being captivated by the experience.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
I like to look at a tree and see that it’s love.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
The heart-mind, the spiritual heart, is awareness and love.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
You can give love to all you perceive, all the time. I am loving awareness.
Ram Dass • Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
I have a practice in which I say to myself, I am loving awareness. To begin, I focus my attention in the middle of my chest, on the heart-mind. I may take a few deep breaths into my diaphragm to help me identify with it. I breathe in love and breathe out love. I watch all of the thoughts that create the stuff of my mind, and I love everything, love
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Try using I am loving awareness to become aware of your thought forms and to practice not identifying with them. Then you can identify with your soul, not your fears and anxieties. Once you identify with your spiritual being, you can’t help but be love.