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| Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ram Dass, Dass Ram, Mark Matousek, Marlene Roeder, Ram Dass
Category: Book
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 859170
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 209
ASIN: B00007CWHO
Publication Date: May 1900
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Amazon.com 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
Product Description
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying is Ram Dass' reflection on the joys, pains and opportunities that appear as we age. In the 1960s, Ram Dass was a Harvard professor who turned to Eastern religion to answer the questions troubling his generation. He shared his story in the landmark--indeed classic--book, Be Here Now, which captured the spiritual longings of his contemporaries. In 1997, Ram Dass suffered a nearly incapacitating stroke that affected his speech and movement. The next two years he devoted to his healing and recovery. Drawing on this experience Ram Dass once again has produced a thought-provoking book that speaks to the soul. It is an appealing selection for those seeking insights and reassurance about the mature seasons of our lives.
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 even when he's not..he's dtill here October 24, 2008
a great companion for those of us beginning the end game.He writes with humor, sincerity and knowledge of one who has been there and has come back to share his insights into the terrain of aging.
 Disappointed September 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When the book arrived a third of it was not glued into the binding. I paid for what was advertised as an excellent as new copy and it was a gift for someone, so I was disappointed with what I received.
GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL HERE January 20, 2008
Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice
The Harvard Ph.D. who dropped acid, dropped out and went to India in search of enlightenment. Your mother's nightmare. Your mother would be glad to know that Ram Dass hung in there, bringing comfort and light to people for the last 40 years. He has attained something worth attaining. I'm told by a friend that Ram Dass was at his most impressive last year, leading a seminar after a stroke that left him barely able to speak. He credited that stroke with teaching him humility. The hard way. A heavy hitter worth reading. Ram Dass writes from a Hindu/Eastern perspective, though he is a trained Western psychologist.
Still Way Ahead Of His Time April 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's been said that Ram Dass was "there" before everyone else. This statement holds true regardless of how you choose to define "there." He continues to show us the way in this, his first post stroke book. Let me quote from the book. "We struggle against the inevitable and we all suffer because of it. We have been trying to find another way to look at the whole process of being born, growing old, changing, and dying, some kind of perspective that might allow us to deal with what we perceive as big obstacles without having to be dragged through the drama of misery. Understanding that we have something-that we are something-that's unchangeable, beautiful, completely aware, and that continues no matter what, really helps."
Ram Dass practices what he preaches. He not only tells us the way, he lives it. That is why we trust him . He's always been ahead of his time. Now, regarding aging, changing, and dying, he still is. "Still Here" is a must read.
 Why we like sunsets February 21, 2007
For a person who has read broadly over the years, this book might raise suspicions that it will contain little that is new. Certainly most of the ideas can easily be found elsewhere. But, this is a personal report by a fascinating man who represents an important take on our times. It's worth the read as well as enjoyable. About the time it seems we've heard it all before, the author makes a statement that causes us to sit up a little straighter and say "I've actually never thought of that before." It seems to me that is why we read.
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