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
looks done body
When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.
soul looks
I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.
tree way looks
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...
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.
love-you looks
When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.
doorways different looks
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.
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.
people suffering looks
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
reflection looks want
When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
soul ego looks
Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.
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.