3 Quotes By Ram Dass To Help You Recognize The Divine In Everyone

That spark of divinity is consciousness, and we all have it

Consciousness Is In Everyone

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
— Ram Dass

Drag usually means putting on the appearance of a gender, but in this case, it means putting on the appearance of identity in all its dimensions.

That’s what God does — for sake of itself, pure loving consciousness divides itself into many and “puts on” flesh and a belief system and calls itself human.

The illusions are very convincing, so we all tend to forget that we are sparks of loving consciousness. That makes us feel separate from each other. Having lost connection to conscious love, we hurt each other.

Ram Dass reminds us: everyone you meet is, in their spirit, the same as you.

Underneath the wrappings of name, form, beliefs, etc, there is only consciousness. And that consciousness is the same for everybody — every soul experiences life, and every heart craves joy.

Not only are all consciousnesses the same in this way, but they are also deeply interconnected. Because we share the world, what affects one consciousness affects all of them.