Quotes About Empathy

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

The higher oneÂ's level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.