Compassion is different from kindness or pity: compassion arises when you recognize that suffering is not 'their' suffering but shared universal suffering; kindness and pity arise from the ego recognizing another's separate pain.

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Speaker

Ram Dass

Evidence Quote

compassion comes when it's your suffering it's not their suffering kindness comes with their suffering and righteousness and guilt and pity and all the rest of it [58:17]

Source

The Miracle of Consciousness - Ram Dass Full Lecture 1996Baba Ram Dass
Created: 8/10/2026, 3:32:01 PM

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