Quotes About Empathic

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker's mind.

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. — Meister Eckhart

The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. I think it's normal that I feel what Emily feels. Better than normal: I believe tuning into other people's emotions is my secret superpower. I can bend steel with my bare hands. I can find a way in. I am CAPTAIN EMPATHY—able to intuit feelings like Superman leaps tall buildings.

I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie...Someone else's life.

It's possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people's stories.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

It's not that empathy itself automatically leads to kindness. Rather, empathy has to connect to kindness that already exists.

So what's the difference between people who are high in communion (positive) and those who are high in unmitigated communion (negative)? Both sorts of people care about others. But communion corresponds to what we can call concern and compassion, while unmitigated communion ends up relating more to empathy or, more precisely, empathic distress—suffering at the suffering of others.