Polishing the Mirror : How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

For five decades, Ram Dass has explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought them to life as service to others. With Polishing the Mirror, he gathers together his essential teachings for living in the eternal present, here and now. Readers will find within these pages a rich combination of perennial wisdom, humor, teaching stories, and detailed guidance on Ram Dass' own spiritual practices, including: Bhakti Yoga--opening our hearts to unconditional love - Practices for living, aging, dying, and embracing the natural flow of life - Karma Yoga--how selfless service can profoundly transform us - Working with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedom - Step-by-step guidance in devotional chant, meditation and mantra practice, and much more For those new to Ram Dass' teachings, and for those to whom they are old friends, here is this vanguard spiritual explorer's complete guide to discovering who we are and why we are here, and how [...]to become beacons of unconditional love.