A review by 333jamie
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying by Ram Dass, Richard Alpert

inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

The truth is that I distanced myself from my body.... I ignored it as much as possible and tried to spiritualize it away.

I've always been eerily comfortable with death, maybe it's astrology maybe it's trauma maybe it's the deep understanding that everything is impermanent including myself. But aging, the fragility of seeing yourself and others in everchanging states has always scared me a bit more than I'd like to admit. Ram Dass's words (and silence!) helped me reflect on why I fear aging, how much of a gift it is alongside my fears, and provided a guide on how to sit with my shame, for the sake of living. I will probably pick this up again every few years.