Be Here Now

by Ram Dass

“Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”

“Don’t think about the future. Just be here now.”

“Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”

is from this place in our heart cave where we are now we watch the entire drama That Is Our Lives we watch the illusion with Unbearable Compassion

When you have quieted your mind enough and transcended your ego enough you can hear how it really is. so: when you are with a candleflame you are the candleflame And when you are with another being’s mind you are the other being’s mind When there is a task to do you are the task The mindless quality of total involvement That comes only when the ego is quiet and there is no attachment It is only when you reside quietly In your own Hridayam that you become He of total light Unbearable Compassion and Infinite Power

as soon as you give it all up you can have it all

Later never exists

If you think You’re free you can’t escape.

“The more you talk about it, the more you think about it, the further from it you go; STOP TALKING, STOP THINKING, AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND.”—Seng-ts’an