Hello Kind Mindful Steemians!
As many of us might have heard on the news today that Ram Dass passed away yesterday, 22nd Dec, at the age of 88. Also called, Baba Ram Dass, his quote on death (see above) is just as profound as his quotes on life.
Ram Dass said:
Ask yourself “Where am I?”
Answer: HERE
Ask yourself “What time is it?”
Answer: NOW.
Say it until you can HEAR it.
But our mind is too often running after future or ruminating in the past. Ram Dass said “BE HERE NOW.” And quite often the difficulty people have is how to be here now. Attending to breath can be the simplest way. Breath does not happen in the past nor in the future. Breath happens here and in the now. So when you are with breath you are being HERE NOW.
As psychology professor with distinct academic achievement and sometime referred to as psychedelics experimenter or promoter, Ram Dass is a spiritual teacher and author of Be Here Now. And his inspirational and insightful quotes will guide ‘000 of seekers. Here are some to celebrate his enlightened “atman” as he often call it (Source)
“When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.”
“We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
“As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don’t have to change them. Things just change.”
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