Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying - Softcover

Dass, Ram

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9780340793220: Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
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ISBN 10: 0340793228 ISBN 13: 9780340793220
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

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 aging 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 aging 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 aging 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 aging, he shares with great generosity. --Brian Bruya

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Review

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 aging 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 aging 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 aging 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 aging, he shares with great generosity. --Brian Bruya

About the Author

Ram Dass works with environmental organizations, the socially conscious business community, and the dying. He is the cofounder of the Hanuman Foundation as well as the Seva Foundation, and he makes his home in Tiburon, California.

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0340793228
ISBN 13 
9780340793220
Binding
Paperback
Rating
  • 4.21 out of 5 stars
    1,761 ratings by Goodreads

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