Ram Dass Quotes about Suffering

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When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

Ram Dass

Character, Suffering, Depth

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

Ram Dass

Grace, Suffering, Path

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Ram Dass

Freedom, Attachment, Suffering

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

Ram Dass

People, Suffering, Looks

Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.15, Bantam

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Ram Dass

Suffering, Doe, Sandpaper

Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.79, Harmony

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Ram Dass

Heart, Compassion, Suffering

Ram Dass (2011). “Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

Ram Dass

Heart, Suffering, Bears

"Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, creativeguide.com. 2013.

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

Heart, Compassion, Suffering

Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.62, Knopf