when you look at not just your family and friends, but your friends family and on and on you see that suffering, how can you bear it? if you pull back into your head you've lost your humanity. if you stay in it your gonna drown, so you get this balancing act. your in it but your not, your in the world but not of the world, its just a very delicate place and you can't arrive at it with intellect, you've gotta go through the horrible pain of seeing suffering. suddenly there is this scene and which you look around and you see that in every life there is this incredible amount of suffering .
How many retreats do you have to go to till when you walk down the street you see that behind every smiling face is more of the same stuff. how do you bear it?
some people bare it by closing their hearts and then they feel closed down,
and thats the problem that many of us during our awakening see that everyone is us, and we couldn't bear it.. so we turned off those higher planes of awareness.
-baba ram dass
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