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
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.
illusion
Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.
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.
offers persons
The gift you offer another person is just your being.
mindfulness layers moments
I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.
unconditional-love people mind
I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
kindness compassion roots
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.
systems-change consciousness individual
As one individual changes, the system changes.
lovers be-here-now not-interested
I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.
science-and-religion teach core
Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?
used strokes used-to-be
I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.
mindfulness moments truth-is
The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.
doorways different looks
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.