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
flower heart garden
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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 Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated?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.
revolution conscious
There can be conscious revolution.
There are no accidents.
distance perspective mind
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
determined enough
If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.
heaven desire hell
Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.
ego fear-of-death
Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
illusion
Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.
mind rational
Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?
miracle ego
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.
exercise earth clock
Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.