Be love now : the path of the heart

Be love now The path of the heart

Ram Dass

Book - 2010

In 1970, Ram Dass' Be Here Now became the counter-culture bible for thousands of young people seeking enlightenment in the midst of the darkness of Vietnam. It was a pioneering bridge, written in colloquial language, from the psychedelic 1960s to Eastern spirituality, and over the years has sold more than two million copies. Be Love Now is the third book in a spiritual trilogy that started with Be Here Now, followed by Still Here, a four-decade pilgrimage across cultures and spiritual traditions. Here, Ram Dass shows us the way to unconditional spiritual love through personal anecdotes, deep insights, and stories. He tracks the stages of his own awakening, takes us through pitfalls on the path and paints a view of what an actual state ...of enlightenment might be like.--From publisher description.

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Subjects
Love > Religious aspects.
Spirituality.
Spiritual life.
Published
New York : HarperOne c2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Ram Dass (-)
Other Authors
Rameshwar Das (-)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
xxv, 304 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780061961380
9780061961373
  • Foreword: Getting Herefrom There
  • 1. The Path of the Heart
  • 2. Excess Baggage
  • 3. To Become One
  • 4. Darshan
  • 5. Guides
  • 6. Remover of Darkness
  • 7. The Way of Grace
  • 8. A Family Man
  • 9. One in My Heart
  • Credits and Permissions
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Ram Dass first told the story of how he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharaj-ji, in the now-legendary Be Here Now (1972). Ram Dass has been a spiritual teacher ever since, ceaselessly reflecting on his profound transformation in India four decades ago, especially in the wake of his debilitating stroke in 1997. In this vivid, often mind-blowing blend of spiritual memoir and teaching stories, written with his fellow devotee, Rameshwar Das, Ram Dass remembers his guru's baffling powers; candidly describes the tensions within the satsang, or community of seekers, surrounding Maharaj-ji; and explains his arduous inner work as he practiced yoga, chanted mantras that work on both vibrational and conceptual planes, and opened his mind to the presence of realized beings, including the Indian saints whose life stories he tells. Beneath the esoteric complexity is the spiritual essence, the unconditional love that Maharaj-ji channeled, the love that Ram Dass seeks to share with others. Love that is like sunshine, a natural force, a completion of what is, a bliss that permeates every particle of existence. --Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

Feted and derided, Dass (born Richard Alpert), one-time friend and associate of Timothy Leary, with whom he was turned out of Harvard for their experiments in the use of LSD, added a phrase to the language with the title of his first major book, Be Here Now. This book continues Dass's story where it left off in Still Here, which includes an account of his life-threatening stroke, and is as much memoir as spiritual counsel. VERDICT Essential for Dass fans, this book is also of interest to students of contemporary Hinduism. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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