Quotes About Empathy

other people want to feel important and loved. Just that. [author's patient, Phil]

make love of your self perfect.

The instant we agree to feel fear or vulnerability, greed or agitation, we are holding our life with an unconditionally friendly heart.

This is the suffering of fear. Fear is part of being alive. Other people experience this too . . . I am not alone. May I be kind to myself . . . may I give myself the compassion I need.

The Tibetan practice of tonglen cultivates the all-embracing heart of compassion. Tonglen means "taking in and sending out.

She could find the cure through being with the pain.

I want to accept myself completely,

I tried to comfort him by explaining that when we really spend time with any living beings—as he had with the ants—we find out that they are real. They are changing, animated, hungry, social. Like us, their life is fragile and they want to stay alive. His playmates hadn't had the chance to get to know ants in the way he did, I told him. If they had, they wouldn't want to injure them either.

we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

As we figuratively sit beside ourselves and inquire, listen and name our experience, we see Mara clearly and open our heart in tenderness for the suffering before us.

Much of our spiritual healing and awakening happens with others. We are wounded in relationship, and we need to heal in relationship.

Offering companionship in pain acknowledges that suffering is living through all of us, and in our togetherness we enlarge the heartspace that can hold it with compassion.

In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva.

May this too be held in lovingkindness.

Aversion arises because we are so deeply conditioned to feel separate and different from others.

You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore.

somewhere up there is another little boy who's thirsty for the sky, facing a lifetime in the dark. And somewhere up there is another little girl who has no idea how to dig out from under the weight of an unwanted future. They need to know that there are other paths ... that they are the treasure of the world.

I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

I could not get thorough answers from the people in my family.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti.

Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He

Il faut désormais faire entendre la voix de ceux qui construisent des ponts, et non plus le seul vacarme de ceux qui détruisent et cloisonnent.