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
used strokes used-to-be
I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.
love-yourself may protest
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
heart thinking games
I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.
death learning ego
The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.
science-and-religion teach core
Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?
heart thinking views
The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
simple men light
It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.
heart compassion suffering
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
mean practice people
I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are
stuff awareness self-awareness
Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.
intuition noise information
We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.
people soul because-i-can
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.
ego tools spirit
The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
ocean tree looks
Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.