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
running mind important
Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.
spiritual events painting
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.
interesting want used
When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.
long shining mind
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.
spiritual heart compassion
The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc…and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally.
exercise earth clock
Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.
respect philosophy philosophical
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
life light grace
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
practice soul ego
When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul
air environment come-up
All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.
light energy-love consciousness
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.
giving paradox be-here-now
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.
compassion joy soul
In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.
spiritual moving practice
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.