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
spiritual jobs heart
So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.
yesterday our-relationship used
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
self-esteem joy self-love
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
moving reality world
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
teacher educational teaching
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.
perfect desire world
The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it
who-i-am honor body
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
guru know-how knows
When you know how to listen everyone is the guru
people suffering looks
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
communication thinking darkness
I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.
thinking ego scare
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
unity moments
A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.
reality space may
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.
systems-change consciousness individual
As one individual changes, the system changes.