There Is No Other collects Ram Dass’ late-life teachings on non-duality and the illusion of separateness — the idea that beneath the many roles and identities we move through, there’s a shared awareness underneath it all. Drawing from his own journey from Harvard psychologist Richard Alpert to spiritual teacher, he writes toward loving awareness as a practice of “being here now” rather than a fixed belief.
- “Working out of enough-ness instead of the need for more is a great art form, and an entrance into be here now.”
- “The fullness of “be here now” has the future and the past in it. People think that being here now means you’re not being responsible. But all the past and the future—everything you always were and all of your commitments for the future—are in this moment. The fullness of this moment includes everything. It doesn’t exclude past and future. All we are dealing with is the human mind that takes us into time and into space and takes us away from the fullness of the moment.” (130)