A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Turn On Your Light
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 10, 2021 💌
When we have the compassion that comes from understanding how it is, we
don't lay a trip on anybody else as to how they ought to be. We don't
say to our parents, "Why don't you understand about the spirit and why
I'm a vegetarian?" We don't say to our husband or wife, "Why do you
still want sex when all I want to do is read The Gospel of Ramakrishna?"
A conscious being does all that he or she can to create a space for being with God but does no violence to the existing karma to do it.
- Ram Dass -