Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying - Softcover

Dass, Ram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340793228 ISBN 13: 9780340793220

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

Ram Dass showed us all how to begin to find peace within ourselves, in one of the greatest spiritual classics of this century, Be Here Now. His new book is aimed at all those entering the later stages of life, and addresses the big questions of peace and of purpose. In Still Here, Ram Dass helps us explore the joy, pain and opportunities of the ripening seasons of our lives. Writing with his trademark humour and wisdom, sharing stories from his own life, and meditation exercises to integrate the teachings into daily life, he offers us a new perspective on the territory that lies ahead. It is a perspective on aging, changing and dying that he hopes will make the tumultuous process a little easier for all of us.

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After being introduced for a lecture, Ram Dass eschewed the stairs and, from his front row seat, leapt up on to the stage--or tried to, anyway, but age and gravity brought him crashing back to earth. Like other baby boomers, Ram Dass has learned the hard way that ageing is unkind to the body. But he has also learned that it can be an opportunity for growth. While others begin to devalue you, you can reconnect with the spiritual, grow into wisdom and create value for yourself. In Still Here, Ram Dass offers a philosophy for ageing that teaches us how to diminish our suffering despite the aches, pains, and limitations of age. This becomes possible when we step away from the ego-self and into the soul-self, where we can witness our thoughts and emotions and evaluate their effects on us. If ageing has brought challenges to Ram Dass, it has also brought him wisdom, which, through his personal anecdotes and stories of others in the struggle against ageing, he shares with great generosity. --Brian Bruya

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'With consummate skill and humor Ram Dass guides us through the later phases of life. When you finish this book you are wiser, freer, more awake, more in touch with your heart. What more could you ask?' (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path to the Heart )

'There are many things one could say after reading a book as wonderful and profound as this one but they all add up to the same thing: thank you, Ram Dass, thanks a lot' (Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, bestselling author of Kitc )

'Ram Dass has entered the often stormy relationship between our physical and spiritual sides, and he has lived to tell about it. This is no gussied-up, glossed-over personal account of illness, but an honest, courageous sharing the flows from the soul. Listen up, everybody, while Ram Dass tells it like it is' (Larry Dossey, MD, author of Reinventing Medicine a )

'I am so happy Ram Dass is "still here" to enrich our lives and show us the way. I was so touched by his truly profound revelations in this gem of a book. "Ram Dass, you're my hero" (Susan Jeffers, PhD, author of Feel the Fear - and )

'Broaches the taboo subjects of ageing and dying from a humane, inspiring perspective' (Top Sante )

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340793228
• ISBN 13: 9780340793220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256