Ram Dass
Ram Dass
Ram Dassis an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He continues to teach via his website...
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth6 April 1931
CityBoston, MA
change thinking differences
Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.
heart thinking mind
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
suffering doe sandpaper
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
want world cures
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.
heart mind flow
Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.
meditation limits gains
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
heart mind way
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
soul ego beloved
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
can-do i-can
I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
life mind clinging
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
spiritual practice religion
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
justice acting helping
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
beautiful together spirit
When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.
mean being-in-love beloved
Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.