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
gratitude heart way
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
tree way looks
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...
heart mind way
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
games people way
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
acting way needs
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.
heart mind way
If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.
age way reap
We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.
appreciation appreciate way
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
honor way belief
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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 Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated?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.
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."