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 Dass
Compassion Suffering

Ram Dass Quotes

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

— Ram Dass
Deep About Life Wisdom Knowledge

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

— Ram Dass

The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

— Ram Dass

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

— Ram Dass

I like to look at a tree and see that it’s love. Don’t you?

— Ram Dass

Don’t take yourself so personally.

— Ram Dass

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

— Ram Dass

One of the ego’s favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

— Ram Dass
Path Ego Doubt

If you keep examining your mind, you’ll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you’re experiencing.

— Ram Dass

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t.

— Ram Dass

The richness of a moment comes when it’s both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

— Ram Dass

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

— Ram Dass
Awakening Universe Different

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we’re always running scared.

— Ram Dass

Give it all up and you can have it all.

— Ram Dass

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

— Ram Dass

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

— Ram Dass
Emotion Short About Life Distance About Ocean

You see that who you are isn’t moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

— Ram Dass

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

— Ram Dass
Soul

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

— Ram Dass
Joy

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That’s what we’re doing and we’re using our incarnations as teaching devices.

— Ram Dass
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