Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found _x000D_ that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
Ram DassRead
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
Interpretation
Compassion is the heartfelt wish to alleviate the pain and suffering of others.
The quote by Ram Dass emphasizes the essential nature of compassion as a fundamental aspect of human experience. It suggests that true compassion emerges from a genuine desire to help alleviate the suffering of all living beings, highlighting the interconnectedness of life and the importance of empathy in building a caring society.
In practice
During a speech about mental health, one might say, 'As Ram Dass wisely stated, compassion is about relieving the suffering of others.'
Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found _x000D_ that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.
The gift you offer another person is just your being.
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. _x000D_ _x000D_ In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. _x000D_ _x000D_ When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
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