When one rests in soul awareness while perceiving another person, the separateness between self and other dissolves: you cease to see yourself as distinct from them; their suffering becomes your suffering; and compassion arises naturally and impersonally, not from effort or guilt.

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Speaker

Ram Dass

Evidence Quote

once you can look at the suffering and be with it as it is and realize it's not their suffering in Bosnia it's the suffering...what arises in absolute equal measure out of you is this quality of compassion [1:13:13]

Source

The Miracle of Consciousness - Ram Dass Full Lecture 1996Baba Ram Dass
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