Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share
This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you… — Ram Dass Copy Share
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. — Ram Dass Copy Share
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents. — Ram Dass Copy Share
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your… — Ram Dass Copy Share
Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there… — Ram Dass Copy Share
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the… — Ram Dass Copy Share
It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. — Ram Dass Copy Share
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom… — Ram Dass Copy Share
