The experience of being thrown out of Harvard was, to Ram Dass, a liberation because it freed him from ego identification with institutional success, even though mainstream culture viewed it as failure; this illustrates the relativity of success and failure in terms of consciousness.
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“I remember the moment when I'd been thrown out of Harvard...the Press was surrounding me...they were all looking at me like I was a loser...but the predicament was that inside myself I felt like I'd won and I said because I was now connected with this deeper spiritual truth [1:57:08]”
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