Quotes About Empathy

When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen. That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space — space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give. Most

If you are awake enough, aware enough, to be able to observe how you interact with other people, you may detect subtle changes in your speech, attitude, and behavior depending on the person you are interacting with.

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

The monks walked on in silence. Five hours later, as they were approaching the lodging temple, Ekido couldn't restrain himself any longer. 'Why did you carry that girl across the road?' he asked. 'We monks are not supposed to do things like that.' 'I put the girl down hours ago,' said Tanzan. 'Are you still carrying her?

You cannot receive what you don't give.

Love is a deep empathy with the other's Beingness. You recognize yourself, your essence, in the other. And so you can no longer inflict suffering on the other

Real love doesn't make you suffer.

It is as if there is nobody there to get hurt anymore. That is forgiveness. In

Love your enemies," said Jesus, which, of course, means "have no enemies.

Every human being emanates an energy field that corresponds to his or her inner state, ... Some people are most clearly aware of it when they first meet someone, even before any words are exchanged. A little later, however, words take over the relationship and with words come the roles that most people play. Attention then moves to the realm of mind, and the ability to sense the other person's energy field becomes greatly diminished.

Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you.

Learn to give expression to what you feel without blaming.

Ask yourself often: 'What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation?

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

He explained to them that he still lacked the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king. He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human.

Giving space to others — and to yourself — is vital. Love cannot flourish without it.

When there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal egoic mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness.

This diminishment of the ego gives rise to empathy and compassion beyond tribal, racial, national, or religious affiliations.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By

After all, it continues to be true for millions of people that the greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.

To love is to recognise yourself in another.

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