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
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.
compassion consciousness planes
True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.
different consciousness form
There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.
systems-change consciousness individual
As one individual changes, the system changes.
light energy-love consciousness
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.
opposites unity consciousness
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
real lying consciousness
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
revolution conscious
There can be conscious revolution.
ask computer dogs easier funny lately learn sign tricks
I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated?
thinking people joy
I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.
teaching soul becoming
Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.
country people focus
By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.
spiritual long mind
We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."