“When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
“The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.”
“In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“I feel therefore I am.”
“Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.”
Source: Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me: How to Recognize And Manage the Narcissists in Your Life
“I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see —
— architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.”
Source: Atomic Truths and Stellar Seeking: A Joybroker's Guide to the Stars Inside
“Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
“I am because I feel.”
“I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.”
Source: Healology