# Quote — Ram Dass, Be Here Now

> During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,
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> "Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I ..."
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> And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."
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> Silence.
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> And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"
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> And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."
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> I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting ..."
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> "Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean."

- Author: [Ram Dass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass.md)
- Book: [Be Here Now](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now.md)
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> Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.

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> I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like "Do you know?" Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes "Do you know?"

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> Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology [at Stanford and Harvard], and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.

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