Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) is an American author and spiritual guru, best known for his works ‘Doing Your Own Being’ and ‘Be Here Now.' The first book co-authored by Ram Dass with L. Rau and R. Sears, ‘Identification and Child Rearing,’ was published in 1962 by the Stanford University Press. In 1964, Ram Dass co-authored ‘The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead’ with Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary. He co-wrote ‘LSD’ with Sidney Cohen that was published in 1966. He published his best-selling book ‘Be Here Now’ in 1971, ‘Doing Your Own Being’ in 1973, and ‘The Only Dance There Is’ in 1974. In 1991, his book ‘Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service’ was published. He published ‘Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying’ in 2000 and ‘Paths to God: Living The Bhagavad Gita’ in 2004. He is renowned for his professional and personal associations with Timothy Leary. He is also a philanthropist and is the founder of charitable organizations like ‘Hanuman Foundation’ and ‘Seva Foundation.’ Here is a collection of Ram Dass' quotations which have been excerpted from his writings, lectures, interviews, books and speeches.
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
Ram Dass
Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
Ram Dass
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
Ram Dass
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.
Ram Dass
I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.
