Ram Dass on Being In Love

Being in love is bliss. We want to hold to it. Be wild its feeling of freedom. And, we want to be, be, be with person who we are in love with.

“In love” is different with a parent-child relationship. Yet, the clinging is the same. Or more like the misidentification is the same. Misidentifying what? The source of our in love.

In context of questioning what feels, at times, like adoration for my daughter, I found a Ram Dass quote on being in love. For those who are not familiar with Ram Dass, he is an American spiritual teacher who for over 50 years has influenced American culture through his service, his seminal book BE HERE NOW, and his humorous and witty way of teaching myriad spiritual methods from ancient wisdom traditions like karma yoga and bhakti yoga, to Theravada, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism, to Sufi and Jewish practices. On this note, here is Ram Dass on being in love:

“When you say ‘I’m in love with you,’ what you’re really saying is that you are the key stimulus that is opening me to the place in myself where I am love, which I can’t get to except through you. Can you hear that one?”
-Ram Dass

Can you hear it?

What if this quote speaks truth? Would it acknowledging this require letting go of our stories about the specialness of our connection with the object of our love? Of the belief that someone else is our source of love? Our source? Letting go of objectifying each other.

It’s not fun to acknowledge this.

It is funny, though.