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Consciousness
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Getting There
The path of enlightenment has no direct relationship with lifestyle. To mistake enlightenment for a particular lifestyle would be like mistaking the filament in a light bulb, rather than the electricity, as the source of the light. Theoretically, an enlightened person could just as easily own a Lear Jet and be a member of the Playboy Club as be a hermit in the woods eating fruit and berries.
July 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
You Can’t Lose Him
Can’t you understand? Can’t you see people cannot live together, freely and with love, till they have learned to live alone, to be alone . . . Neither he nor you are at that point.
June 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
What Shall God Fear?
I have wanted you, wanted you, out of what? love? need? true love is not possessive, jealousy is a learned response, but oh god, how to let go? how to love you, not own you, how to let you be?
June 1974The Sun Interview
More Baba Ram Dass
You start with the energy to be somebody, then use it to become nobody.
January 1974The Sun Interview
Baba Ram Dass
There Is No Energy Crisis!
In a recent interview, Ram Dass, who moves and speaks with an economy of energy suited to the times, suggests that the energy crisis is, “like all trauma, an exquisitely designed opportunity to reawaken man.”
January 1974
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