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
tree way looks
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is...
gratitude heart way
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
struggle being-positive needs
If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.
love-is medicine glimpse
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
spiritual self giving
Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
heart intuition mind
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.
careers issues achievement
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.
acceptance people friendly
This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.
compassion consciousness planes
True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.
spiritual home soul
Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home.
life real awareness
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!
oneness ego evolution
A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.
life creativity creative
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.
profound mind patterns
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.