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Be Here Now Summary & Review: Leave the Story, Return to Now
Ram Dass’s 1971 classic is a conversion story plus a Tuesday method: leave the replay, return to this moment, and stop collecting…
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Ram Dass
"Leave the story. Return to this moment."
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; 6 April 1931 – 22 December 2019) was an American psychologist, writer, and spiritual teacher. He taught at Harvard with Timothy Leary, went to India in 1967, and was named Ram Dass by Neem Karoli Baba. Be Here Now (1971) helped bring yoga and presence practice into Western living rooms.
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Be here now
The mind leaves into replay or plan; the work is returning to this moment.
You are not the story
Roles peel. The witness that watches them is closer to what you are than the plot.
Painted cakes
Descriptions of practice do not feed you. Cook one recipe this week.
Notable Quotes
"Be here now."— Be Here Now — the instruction Ram Dass received from his teachers in India
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Be Here Now Summary & Review: Leave the Story, Return to Now
Ram Dass’s 1971 classic is a conversion story plus a Tuesday method: leave the replay, return to this moment, and stop collecting spiritual descriptions.