Quotes About Empathy

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel with and for a stranger.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

Love will be our medicine.

May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.

Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and our abilities were used in a way that served people.  We're compensated by grateful looks in other people's eyes, whatever material abundance supports us in performing joyfully and at high energy, and the magnificent feeling that we did our bit today to help save the world.

When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.

But remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves.

A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.