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 DassOur rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
Ram DassI get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.
Ram Dass