Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, And Dying - Hardcover

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, until age and gravity brought him crashing down to earth. Like other Baby Boomers, Ram Dass has learned the hard way that ageing is unkind. But he has also learned that it can be an opportunity for growth. While others begin to devalue older people, they will find that they can reconnect with the spiritual, grow into wisdom, and create value for themselves. In Still Here, Ram Dass offers a philosophy for ageing that teaches how to diminish suffering despite the aches and pains and limitations of age. This is possible by stepping away from the ego-self into the soul-self, where thoughts and emotions can be witnessed and their effects evaluated. If ageing 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 ageing, he shares with great generosity. --Brian Bruya

'With consummate skill and humor Ram Dass guides us through the later phases of life. When you finish this book you are wiser, freer, more awake, more in touch with your heart. What more could you ask?' (Jack Kornfield, author of A Path to the Heart )

'There are many things one could say after reading a book as wonderful and profound as this one but they all add up to the same thing: thank you, Ram Dass, thanks a lot' (Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, bestselling author of Kitc )

'Ram Dass has entered the often stormy relationship between our physical and spiritual sides, and he has lived to tell about it. This is no gussied-up, glossed-over personal account of illness, but an honest, courageous sharing the flows from the soul. Listen up, everybody, while Ram Dass tells it like it is' (Larry Dossey, MD, author of Reinventing Medicine a )

'I am so happy Ram Dass is "still here" to enrich our lives and show us the way. I was so touched by his truly profound revelations in this gem of a book. "Ram Dass, you're my hero" (Susan Jeffers, PhD, author of Feel the Fear - and )

'Broaches the taboo subjects of ageing and dying from a humane, inspiring perspective' (Top Sante )