# Quote — Ram Dass, Be Here Now

> I thought at that moment, "Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being — I'm just an inner self — all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever."
>
> But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. I was talking about how I "experienced" this thing, because I was back being that anxiety-neurotic, in a slightly milder form, but still, my old personality was sneaking back up on me.

- 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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## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now/every-time-i-went.md)

> 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?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now/i-had-gone.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ram-dass/be-here-now/here-i-was.md)