I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.
Ram DassIf you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!
Ram DassYou're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.
Ram DassCompassion 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.
Ram Dass