In today’s America it often feels to many people like there is a lack of empathy, or compassion. Too often the underprivileged, the underserved, the marginalized get pushed aside.
But compassion may prove to be like a muscle, that we can exercise and strengthen.
Famed psychologist and eastern spiritual leader Ram Dass wrote more than a dozen books over a period of years, starting in 1971 with the groundbreaking Be Here Now.
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In 1992 Dass Wrote a book to show us what compassion should look like. His book was called Compassion in Action. That’s when I had a few minutes with him.
So here now, from 1992, Ram Dass.
Ram Dass died in 2019, at the age of 88.