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
people community despair
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.
thinking two soul
These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.
looks done body
When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.
motivational gains action
We gain internal freedom through external actions.
issues evolution consciousness
It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.
thinking mind consciousness
Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.
moving wake-up patient
Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead.
believe space space-between
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
journey long asking
Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.
journey important predicaments
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
compassion ability ability-to-see
Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
inspirational detroit bus
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
important dying moments
Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation
profound mind patterns
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.