Quotes About Empathy

Love is about seeing: I see Ram, and Ram sees me. I want to be seen by Ram and Ram wants to be seen by me. I have shown Ram my vulnerabilities without trepidation and so has he. Ravana cannot love another because he sees no one, not even himself.

his brother the benefit of the doubt. Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump to conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand.

Brahmana represents a state when humans have totally overpowered the animal brain; in other words, outgrown fear. We do not look at the other as predator or prey, mate or rival. We do not seek to judge the other in order to position ourselves. Our identity is not dependent on the other. It is independent, devoid of the need for props. We either withdraw as Shiva does, or engage as Vishnu does, in order to enable the insecure other, who is entrapped in a crumpled mind.

Vengeance will never take away sorrow. It

Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

To empathize is dharma. Failure to empathize is adharma.

Do not punish yourself if you waver. Humans judge, nature does not.

You know what's so cool about gaming? The whole collective consciousness thing! Like when you tap into your own knight in shinning armor, you're tapping into all knights in shinning armor. All these archetypes, you know, are we're all of them, and you have to learn to honour and acknowledge them inside you." "Plus, you get to be people you're not." "Um. True. And people you are.

People are not born with hearts of stone; there's a reason they harden. Sometimes they make poor choices, and sometimes they lack discipline. As a result of these choices, people carry around blame or anger with themselves, which looks like harshness on the outside. Sometimes we simply don't know any better.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts… someone's got to go out there and love people and show it.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.

it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.

That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

We are safer and happier when we care for each other in community, when we do things for each other.

St. Teresa of Ávila once said, "God has no hands but yours. . . . Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

If you dig a grave for your neighbour, first measure it for yourself.