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
yoga heart practice
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
christian buddhist heart
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come together; doesn't matter, because those are paths. They're paths to the One. But those satsangs are what the world needs. And as I say - heart to heart - that's what satsang is.
heart suffering bears
Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!
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.
gratitude heart way
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
heart guru hanging-out
I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.
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.
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.
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.
heart fundamentals world
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
spiritual heart emotional
When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiritual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.
heart spreading-love turns
I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.
heart thinking mind
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
heart mind flow
Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.