Ram Dass - Embracing Our Humanity

An evening with Ram Dass where he discusses importance of intuition, incorporating darkness and light, and ultimately embracing one's humanity.

Recorded on August 7, 1982 in Pacific Grove, California.

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In this lecture, Ram Dass discusses the changes he's experienced in himself over the many years that he's been teaching. He admits to having been caught in the separateness of acting as a 'holy man', trying to live through other's expectations. He found that eventually, he had to acknowledge the part of him that was using the spiritual path to avoid the things he couldn't face in himself, and that the game wasn't about getting high, but getting free. This requires embracing all of life, incorporating the darkness into the light. The human heart is the doorway to intuition and our actions must come from the blending of humanity and divinity. Until we fully accept our humanity, our intuition will lack harmony. When we embrace our uniqueness and accept responsibility for the creation of who we are, we begin to let go of the forms that keep us separate. If we can identify with our inner being then we can open to a much broader appreciation of the outer world in which we must live. We can learn to operate within our roles, without getting lost in them. Who we think we are disappears, and we find action in that previously confined energy.

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