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
wise world-suffering training
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
age way reap
We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.
i-love-you unconditional-love emotion
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
answers asks
Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.
soul flow natural
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
ego who-we-are moments
At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.
religion spirituality happened
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
appreciation appreciate way
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
soul want ifs
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!
meditation watches
In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
thinking mind thinking-mind
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
heart thinking mind
I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.
confidence self-esteem love-yourself
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
judging use stuff
So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.