Ram Dass Quotes

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.