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
life creativity creative
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.
life real awareness
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!
age doe human-life
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
personality body life-experience
You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.
life mind clinging
What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.
life listening secret
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.
life opportunity awareness
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
life light grace
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
life spiritual use
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
life-changing fearless live-your-life
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
life actors stories
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
live-life meditation caves
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.
life-and-love self-esteem perfection
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
life lying compassion
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.