Ram Dass: Keep Your Heart Open

He was saying I lost my balance and had become so obsessed with the suffering that I couldn't see the greater picture.
This is about where you stand in your awareness, in a place that allows you to be with suffering in the world without closing your heart. If you close or armor your heart in order to be in the world, you become a crippled instrument for the healing of the universe. So you do all you can to relieve suffering and work to keep your heart open.
- Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror