Quotes About Empathy

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper.

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality.

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. In that sense, you have much to learn from your enemies

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" 1

Nu deveniÈ›i mai buni încercând s? fiÈ›i buni, ci g?sind bun?tatea care deja se afl? în voi È™i permiÈ›ându-i s? ias? la iveal?. Dar acest lucru este posibil doar dac? se schimb? ceva fundamental în starea voastr? de conÈ™tiin??.

When you confuse the ego that you perceive in others with their identity, it is the work of your own ego that uses this misperception to strengthen itself through being right and therefore superior, and through reacting with condemnation, indignation, and often anger against the perceived enemy.

As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well. True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

see the sameness of being in every human.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are. To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means "being the knowing" rather than "being the reaction" and the judge.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.

Cómo puedes estar resentido con alguien que está enfermo? La única respuesta apropiada es la compasión.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

No juzgue o condene lo que oye, porque hacerlo significaría que la misma voz ha vuelto a entrar por la puerta trasera.

LEARN TO GIVE EXPRESSION to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, nondefensive way.

Si no puedes aceptar lo que es, eso implica que nunca puedes aceptar a las personas como son.

Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.

APRENDE A EXPRESAR lo que sientes sin culpar. Aprende a escuchar a tu pareja de manera abierta, sin ponerte a la defensiva.

The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way.

No puedes amar a tu compañero o compañera un momento y atacarle al siguiente. El verdadero amor no tiene opuesto.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are.