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
mean being-in-love love-is
Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
love-is medicine glimpse
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
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.
love-yourself may protest
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
mean being-in-love love-is
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
lovers be-here-now not-interested
I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.
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.
mean being-in-love beloved
Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
self-esteem joy self-love
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
love-you unconditional-love essence
The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.
unconditional-love people mind
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
fear love-and-fear interaction
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
i-love-you unconditional-love emotion
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.