Quotes About Empathy

Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.

TO RETEACH A THING its loveliness" is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone and everything can flower again from within. When we recover knowledge of our own loveliness and that of others, self-blessing happens naturally and beautifully.

When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings

There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

it's human nature to want to seize control when the people we love are suffering. But trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

If we stretch ourselves to open our minds, to see our shared humanity with others, we allow ourselves to see the existence of community and generosity in unexpected places.

Everyone Can Play is now the precept I live by. We may not agree with one another. We may argue. We may compete. But everybody gets to play, no matter what. We all deserve a shot at life.

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.

When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.

No matter what we think we should do, I don't think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can't stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.

Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

In some ways to be able to forgive, to let go, is a type of dying. It is the ability to say, ' I am not that person anymore, and you are not that person anymore.' Forgiveness allows us to recapture some part of ourselves that we left behind in bondage to a past event. Some part of our identity may also need to die in that letting go, so that we can reclaim the energy bound up in the past

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how.

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.

When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion.

One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.

How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.