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
nature tree looks
I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?
love looks yearning
I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.
doe awareness liberated
A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.
enlightenment enlightened persons
The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.
suffering guru said
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
perspective trying needs
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
important said born
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
friendship fun helping
The fun is having friends who help each other get free.
ego doubt path
One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
world waste moments
You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.
love-you looks
When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.
age doe human-life
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
school people psychology
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.
children cutting support
So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.