Quotes About Empathy

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.

the only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion

That which we object to in others is often experiment for ourselves.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

We're only afraid of or repulsed by what we don't understand.

If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.

A tragédia está nos olhos de quem a observa, e não no coração de quem a sofre

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, vor dem man laut denken kann.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are 'together' in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sharing a common state together. That state exists in you and it exists in me.

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.