“ Working on our own consciousness is the most important
thing that we are doing at any moment.”        - Ram Dass
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 ”Working On Yourself”   (author unknown)

  In 1995 I was driving through a snowstorm listening to an interview of Ram Dass, a long-time spiritual teacher who
was once a professor at Harvard.
When asked how he had come to be so effective at working with people, Ram Dass said something that surprised me.  I remember his exact words. He said, “When I’m with someone, I work on myself.”
 At first I didn’t understand what he meant. Then he went on to explain that whenever he was with another person, he would simply watch the uncomfortable thoughts, judgments and feelings that arose inside of him.
These would show him the issues he still needed to resolve, and the parts of himself and others that he yet to fully accept, love and embrace into his wholeness. It was his personal practice for opening his mind and heart to everything.  This fascinated me. Instead of trying to change, counsel or even be of “service” to the other person, Ram Dass would simply sit and speak with someone, while internally working on himself.  Even more amazing was that people would often leave their meetings with Ram Dass with life-changing insights and discoveries about themselves and their lives.