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
thinking mind moments
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
pain attachment long
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.
powerful perception important
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
art pain unbearable
The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.
buddhism voice space
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.
teacher light shadow
The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
spiritual journey grace
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.
unique path compare
Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.
spiritual moving yoga
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
life actors stories
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
spiritual drama moments
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
religion spirituality be-here-now
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
spiritual yoga long
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
heart mean appreciate
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation...