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
heart suffering bears
Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!
acceptance mind suffering
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
suffering
Suffering brings me so close to God.
suffering guru said
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
god mean suffering
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.
character suffering depth
When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?
games suffering planes
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
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.
suffering doe sandpaper
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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.
grace suffering path
Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.
freedom attachment suffering
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.
heart compassion suffering
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
wise world-suffering training
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.