Quotes About Empathy

Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. So that the other can stop being a bomb, a source of pain for ourselves and others, you really have to help him to defuse the bomb. To be able to provide help, we have to have a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in ourselves.

If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.

Some people suffer deeply but are completely ignored by others. They are alone and isolated, so cut off from the rest of the world that their suffering becomes overwhelming. You must go to them and open the door to their heart so they can see the love that is there.

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No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Listening with mindfulness helps you to keep your compassion alive. It protects you, and your anger will not be triggered. Even fifteen minutes of listening like this can be very healing and can bring a lot of relief to another. You may be the first person who has ever listened to him or her like that.

The only way to understand fully is to become the object of our understanding.

When Avalokiteshvara says there is no suffering, he means that suffering is made entirely of things that are not suffering.2 Whether you suffer or not depends on many circumstances. The cold air can be painful if you are not wearing warm enough clothes, but with proper clothing, cold air can be a source of joy. Suffering is not objective. It depends largely on the way you perceive.

Fear or hatred, born of ignorance, amplifies your pain.

My friends, I wish with all my heart that you do not make the same mistake. The next time you are suffering, if this suffering was caused by the person you love most in the world, have recourse to right action and say the fourth mantra: "Dear one, I am suffering deeply. I need you to help me to get out of this suffering. I need you to explain this to me." This is the language of true love.

Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?

We need to not only recognize the suffering, pain, and difficulties within us, we need to devote time to dealing with them and transforming them

To connect with others, however, we first have to be willing to look deeply into ourselves.

Avalokiteshvara means "the one who listens deeply to the sounds of the world.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

Before you do the work of reconciliation with another, you need to restore communication with yourself.

Th?u hi?u ná»—i Ä'au c?a ng??i khác là món quà to lá»›n nh?t mà b?n có th? trao t?ng h?. Th?u hi?u là tên g?i khác c?a yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng. N?u b?n không th? th?u hi?u, thì b?n ch?ng th? yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng

It does not take more than one thoughtless phrase to hurt someone.

Continuing to work in a spirit of love and understanding required great courage.

We can only understand another person when we're able to truly listen to them. When we can listen to others with deep compassion, we can understand their pain and difficulties. But when we're angry, we can't listen to others or hear their suffering. Listening deeply to another is a form of meditation.

For love to be true love, it must contain compassion, joy, and equanimity. For compassion to be true compassion, it has to have love, joy, and equanimity in it. True joy has to contain love, compassion, and equanimity. And true equanimity has to have love, compassion, and joy in it.

Your thoughts can make you and the world around you suffer more or suffer less.

None of us needs to embrace pain and sorrow alone. When you throw a rock into a river, no matter how small the rock is, it will sink to the bottom of the river. But if you have a boat, you can carry many tons of rocks, and they won't sink.

No podrás ayudarla, ni amarla. Tu capacidad de amar a otra persona depende por completo de tu capacidad de amarte a ti mismo, de cuidar de ti.