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
power want be-here-now
The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
heart intuition mind
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.
spiritual self giving
Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
suffering
Suffering brings me so close to God.
mean being-in-love love-is
Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
love-is medicine glimpse
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
struggle being-positive needs
If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.
perspective
Don't take yourself so personally.
beautiful art loneliness
Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.
gratitude heart way
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
spring creativity longing
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.
soul looks
I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.
tree way looks
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...
gratitude children healing
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.