Remember, Be Here Now is a fun freely written spiritual journey merging 1970 meditation and spiritual practices. The core lesson in this fun, well written book is self-discovery. Ram Dass expresses the importance that you can be yourself: you are eternal-everything-free.
Simple lessons that go over looked in our day to day society, lessons like you can have it all when you are it all.
Ram Dass’ ideas from this spiritual journey of a book reminds us (on numberless of his visually drawn psychedelic pages) that our thoughts are not ran by clocks but bound in time and space-so to experience true reality, or eternal soul awareness, or divine love-we need to go beyond our thoughts and reach out to a deeper realm. We so commonly say, ‘this happened because of a specific reason’-that’s only a story; it does not allow you to jump out of the ‘gravitational wake of time and space’ and blossom into the flower that you are.
One of my favorite quote from this book is, “Thoughts are like a caterpillar and beyond thoughts is like the butterfly. What is beyond thoughts? Us. Soul. Eternal, unbounded love. Bliss. Self-creating an individual joy-that which cannot be affected by time-space thoughts and events. What does this mean in practical terms? We can live freely, in peace and joy despite what goes on in the world.”
This book I found to be incredibly enlightening with a mix of humor, spirituality, fun, and most important new life long lesson that are free….if you open your mind and allow it to receive.
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November 23, 2015 at 12:02 am (9 years ago)This definitely a fun read that brought back many memories. Be Here Now was like a bible to me back in the 70s. Somewhere along the way, I lost it, and a few years back I bought a new copy. My first copy came from a head shop. The most recent, from Amazon. Times change. I’d also recommend Ram Dass’ newest book, “Still Here.” It’s about aging and deals a lot with his stroke and ongoing recovery of same.