Quotes About Empathy

One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People can only do so much with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge that they have.

However, I Would Not Blame Our Parents for This We are all victims of victims, and they could not possibly have taught us anything they did not know. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself.

Don't judge yourself for not being with the person or doing enough for the person while he or she was alive.

We need to stop all criticism.

We're all doing the best we can with the understanding, knowledge, and awareness we have.

I often ask clients, "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" We all have opinions on who was right and who was wrong according to our own perceptions, and we can all find ways to justify our feelings. We want to punish others for what they did to us; however, we are the ones running the story over and over in our own minds. It is foolish for us to punish ourselves in the present because someone hurt us in the past.

We realize that everyone is a reflection of us, and what we see in another person we can see in ourselves.

Visualize or imagine yourself having or doing or being what you are working toward. Fill in all the details. Feel, see, taste, touch, hear. Notice other people's reactions to your new state. Make it all okay with you no matter what their reactions are.

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free." This

6. Loving yourself means supporting yourself. Reach out to friends and allow them to help you.

When you recognize that you're a human being who sometimes makes mistakes, you won't get caught up in the illusion of self-importance. — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

When your heart is full of love for yourself, then you have so much to share with others.

put a wall around myself that kept me literally out of touch with my own feelings.

Forgiveness means giving up, letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior. It's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know HOW to forgive. All we need to do is to be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

I would add to that concept that the very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one YOU NEED TO LET GO OF THE MOST.

Too often instead of working on our own changes, we decide which of our friends needs to change. This, too, is resistance.

Te perdono por no ser como yo quería que fueras. Te perdono y te dejo en libertad.»

You can't free yourself until you free them. You can't forgive yourself until you forgive them. If you demand perfection from them, you will demand perfection from yourself, and you will be miserable all your life.

Mientras menos te ames, haces que amarte sea más difícil para los demás; mientras más te ames, más reconoces cuánto te aman.

Being unwilling to forgive is a terrible thing to do to yourself.

if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from.

We are all victims of victims, and they could not possibly have taught us anything they did not know.

I wanted to hug them all. We belonged to each other somehow...But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn't want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self.

Help me," said the Brown Sister. Her face