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
moving cutting mind
You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.
freedom attachment suffering
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.
heart exercise people
Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.
fall compassion people
As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.
ego deny preoccupation
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
pain heart compassion
When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.
drama humor mellow
Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.
moving packing incarnation
You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.
distance ocean watches
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
mean enemy moments
Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.
heart compassion suffering
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
inspiration awareness contact
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
life opportunity awareness
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
wisdom knowledge data
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.