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.
Ram DassYou and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
Ram DassI help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
Ram DassConsciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.
Ram DassThese are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.
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