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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin.
It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
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To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.
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Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. Jen Knox
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person.
In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller
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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition.
Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.
Azar Nafisi
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The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eye for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch To Kill a Mockingbird
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.'
The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.
Ansel Adams
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Compassion has the power to dissolve pain by not avoiding it, but by trusting that love affords the greatest protection. By discovering that there is a reality—love—stronger than any pain, you mount your strongest defense.
Deepak Chopra
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http://bigthink.com/ Perhaps the depth and complexity of the human voice explains radio's unique power as a storytelling medium.
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
Henri Nouwen
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It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
Lydia Millet
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I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
films... to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage EMPATHY with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good, they could also be purely entertaining and there is nothing wrong with that.
Roger Ebert
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Moral imagination is the capacity to empathize with others, i.e., not just to feel for oneself, but to feel with and for others. This is something that education ought to cultivate and that citizens ought to bring to politics.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger, Prominent Psychiatrist
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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil, I think I've come close to defining it. A lack of empathy.
It's the one characteristics that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.
Evil I think, is the absence of empathy."
Gustav M. Gilbert, From Nuremberg (2000) Nazi Leaders on trial..
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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Siddhartha Gautam Buddha, founder of Buddhism
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Song of Myself
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry and leans by the
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