Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
RAM DASSThe world is won by those who let it go.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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