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
life-changing fearless live-your-life
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
journey path lost
This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.
love attitude flower
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
spiritual heart silence
If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.
heart mean appreciate
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation...
spiritual yoga long
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
mean sleep light
The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.
religion spirituality be-here-now
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
spiritual drama moments
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
life actors stories
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
spiritual moving yoga
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
unique path compare
Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.
spiritual journey grace
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.