Quotes About Empathic

Make sure there is nothing in the poem that would keep the reader from becoming the speaker of the poem.

When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It's an entirely different paradigm. Empathic (from empathy) listening gets inside another person's frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world, you understand their paradigm, you understand how they feel.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

Indeed, says psychologist Dan Stern of the University of Geneva, the brain is so relational that our nervous system is actually "constructed to be captured by the nervous systems of others, so that we can experience others as if from within their skin, as well as from within our own.

Betazoids could not form empathic or telepathic impressions of Ferengi

If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all.

I understand Neverfell, you see. For Neverfell, it is as if other people are part of her. When she believes they are in pain, it hurts her, like a wound in a pretend limb. So right now she is in pain for all the people she saw in the Undercity.

Many people can see the pain of others but can not feel it till they are there

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view –' 'Sir?' '– until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

social work wasn't about fixing. It was and is all about contextualizing and "leaning in." Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way.

Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart.

Not being able or willing to put yourself in someone else's shoes—to view life differently from how you yourself experience it—is the first step toward being not empathic, and this is why so many progressive movements become as rigid and as authoritarian as the institutions they're resisting.

She could sense them all around her now, their pain, their hunger, their need,

When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.

Who are you who has taken my suffering as your suffering, my happiness as your happiness, my life and death as your life and death?

Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don't experience them as feeling beings, we not only ignore them, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

I feel things other people don't. I don't think it's particularly clever of me, or anything like that. I just do it.

He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made him aware that there were such things as other human interests, million miles from his own but no less legitimate.

You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

If you really know me,then you'd know what I feel right now without me saying a word

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

This book describes a seismic—though as yet undetected—shift now under way in much of the advanced world. We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what's rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.