Quotes About Empathy

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.

Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD LISTENER? 1. Not interrupting. 2. Showing that you empathize: not criticizing, arguing, or patronizing. 3. Establishing a physical sense of closeness without invading personal space. 4. Observing body language and letting yours show you are not distracted but attentive. 5. Offering your own self-disclosures, but not too many, or too soon. 6. Understanding the context of the other person's life. 7. Listening from all four levels: body, mind, heart, and soul.

Because silence is the birthplace of happiness. Silence is where we get our bursts of inspiration, our tender feelings of compassion and empathy, our sense of love.

Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.

Total compassion leads to total forgiveness. You can't force yourself to forgive anyone. Forgiveness doesn't belong to the mind. It is a feeling of the heart.

People who report that they are happy have a common trait: they actively connect with friends and loved ones for an hour or two a day.

Today, give somebody a response instead of a reaction.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation. These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else's fault. When you

You begin to see yourself not in isolation but as part of the whole. It becomes possible to help others as you would help yourself, not because service and charity make you feel good, but because you recognize that you are the very person you serve.

The best way to put the Law of Giving into operation — to start the whole process of circulation — is to make a decision that any time you come into contact with anyone, you will give them something.

When you can arrive at the point where looking and listening comes from your entire being, you are setting the stage to be an inspiring leader.

In fact, the most powerful forms of giving are non-material. The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. When

At any given moment your energy field will come into contact with and affect everyone else's energy field, and each of us responds in some way to that experience.

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Si a través del acto de dar, sientes que has perdido algo, entonces el regalo no es verdadero y no causarás aumento en el recibir. Si

You want to protect the innocent. Let me tell you, God isn't just in the rabbits. He's also in the foxes. So your little act of kindness deprived God of a meal.

Today, decide to see the world with your heart and not with your head. To imagine what that's like, think about how a mother feels towards her child. No matter how many ways the child may decide to be bad, it's mother doesn't change her love.

Forgive because it makes you feel good.

Don't we all, at some level, want to join the outsiders? Their stories tear at our hearts and uplift our souls. The lessons they learned took the human race down unknown roads. One could do worse than to jump the track of everyday life and follow them. Deepak Chopra April 2012

Love without action is irrelevant, while action without love is meaningless...combine the two, what you can achieve is almost limitless.

The emotional states associated with the heart include some that every life would benefit from: Empathy, which makes us feel what someone else is feeling Compassion, which motivates us to extend lovingkindness Forgiveness, which wipes the slate clean of old grievances and wounding Sacrifice, which allows us to put someone else's good above our own Devotion, which inspires reverence for higher values None of these states is a term in cardiology, yet they have medical consequences

should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering—you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.