Finally reading "Be Here Now"
22Dec2006 09:29 AM Books
I'm at
my Mom's home in California for a few days over the
holidays, finally! (after how many years!?!) getting
around to reading Ram Dass's seminal breakthrough
book "Be Here Now" which I found
in her voluminous (no wonder where the osmotic
metaphysical muse influence came from) library in
one of the guest bedrooms... What a great book!
I'd skimmed it a few times, and now that I've
finally savoring the wisdom (and marvelous hand
drawn illustrations so typical of the psychedelic
era), I'm so glad to have taken the "time" NOW to
read it HERE! I suspect the little bit - smirk -
of Eastern mysticism which might have put off lots
of folks a decade or 3 ago, is now so woven into
the fabric of our western culture, that it might
be more accessible to a wider audience, who are
ready to pick up a classic ... Here are a couple
of gems that jumped out at me. The first on
"polarity": "In polarity, you're creating
opposites - you can only protest effectively when
you love the person whose ideas you are protesting
against as much as you love yourself." ... I'll
find the other later (the pages in the first
section aren't numbered, so I'll re-read and post
it later 
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