Ram Dass
Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help?
Background
- Born in
- Boston
- Educated at
- Stanford UniversityTufts UniversityWesleyan UniversityWilliston Northampton School
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"His teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within … that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation … as if I knew it all already."
"It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religio…"
"We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it."
"I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like "Do you know?" Just…"
"Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology , and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves …"
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Timeline
1931
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