This was a Book Group book. I was not impressed. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. There are some books that make me feel like I'm flying. This book just brought me down. I found it boring. It's not bad. Other members of the group were very impressed. But that is possibly because they had never encountered these ideas before.This book takes a great many words to say very little. It reminds me of then I was in high school math class and the teacher would explain a new concept and I would understand it and then the teacher would spend the rest of the hour explaining the same thing over and over again in different ways for the students who didn't get it.If you don't know anything about Hinduism, and you are interested in New Age sort of things you might enjoy this. It's not actually bad. There comes a point where words exhaust their possibilities. At best language can point towards the Eternal Truth permeating all existence, however because of their limitations as symbols they never fully express IT. Through "Be Here Now", "Grist for the Mill", and hours of recorded lectures, I think Ram Dass has taken his language to its limit. Such as it is, "Be Love Now" did not alter my perspective like his previous mentioned work. But how could it? I had already changed. Also it did not deepen my relationship with the divine...but this is because words have taken me as far as they can on my spiritual journey. All that is left is direct experience through meditation, intense experience leading to sudden insight, and the long narrative-arch of life experience and circumstance. Learning by living. None of this is meant to diminish "Be Love Now". In fact Ram Dass breaks down the whole trip to its essential, which is LOVE. The whole journey is awakening to the LOVE inside yourself, which in its purist form is GOD, and as we awaken we begin to discover how to express it in our lives. This is how we grow."Be Love Now" is a love letter to Ram Dass's guru, Neem Karoli Baba Maharaji and all divine infinitely loving saints. It's a poignant bookend to Ram Dass's life---his journey, his message, and his heart. This is what I have always loved about Ram Dass. His heart! Joy and love beam from his pours, and this I have always recognized as the kernel of authentic spirituality.
What do You think about Be Love Now (2010)?
I honestly can say I need to read this again before commenting, but I did learn a lot.
—tuly
outstanding book! a must for those in the path of spirituality! :) RAM RAM RAM
—polardos
Wonderful inspiring reminder of what we are working on.
—ocinelleselomin
