Ram Dass - Compassion Quotes

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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

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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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Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

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Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

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True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

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When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

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