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
meditation limits gains
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
meditation silence mind
Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.
meditation watches
In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
letting-go mean meditation
Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.
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.
giving-up mean meditation
You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
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 Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated?
dreamed exquisite minute paradox soon
The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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."
feelings world affair
I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.
spiritual alive pool
I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.