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“Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.”

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“Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.”

Politics Revolution Empathy Social Media Protest Morals Moral Responsibility Aysha Taryam Cyber World

Author:Aysha Taryam

“We see it on blogs and in emails, on television talk shows, in public meetings and community forums; we are a culture that seems unable to concentrate, to pursue a line of thought or tolerate a conflicting point of view. … It’s different with a book, or any long-form piece of writing; these are slower, deeper, quieter. As readers, we are asked to slip inside the text, and if we can’t help but bring our personalities and perceptions to the process, the participation required leads to an inevitable empathy.”

Reading Empathy Thought Concentration Participation

Book:The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

Source: The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

“When we walk a mile in another's moccasins, we can sympathize in a way that one cannot with just a pure clinical perspective.”

Perspective Empathy Experience

Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives

Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives

“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.”

Source: Ever My Merlin

“My wounds became my spectacles, helping me to see what I encounter with empathy, and with a grateful sense of privilege.”

Healing Empathy Psychological Wounded Healer

Book:The Bitter Pill: Doctors, patients, and failed expectations

Source: The Bitter Pill: Doctors, patients, and failed expectations

“Please heal that part of me that feels the need to rescue everyone I meet. I know that you watch over and take care of everyone.”

Wisdom Spirituality Prayer Empathy

Author:Sama Akbar

“The CMO should not and cannot rely on empathy alone to guide them, rather than market research. Likewise, no amount of market research can entirely replace empathy for the customer.”

Empathy Marketing Market Research Customer Research Cmo Chief Marketing Officer

Author:Josh Steimle

“All people have the ability to feel for others through empathy.”

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Book:Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

Source: Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“It’s natural that we should fear and be suspicious of representations of us by those who are not like us. Equally rational is the assumption that those who are like us will at least take care with their depictions, and will be motivated by love and intimate knowledge instead of prejudice and phobia. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writing by women, and by oppressed minorities of all kinds, has wondrously expanded the literary landscape, ennobling griefs that had, historically, either passed unnoticed or been brutally suppressed and caricatured. We’re eager to speak for ourselves. But in our justified desire to level or even obliterate the old power structures—to reclaim our agency when it comes to the representation of selves—we can, sometimes, forget the mystery that lies at the heart of all selfhood. Of what a self may contain that is both unseen and ultimately unknowable. Of what invisible griefs we might share, over and above our many manifest and significant differences. We also forget what writers are: people with voices in our heads and a great deal of inappropriate curiosity about the lives of others.”

Fiction Empathy Curiosity Representation Novels Cultural Appropriation Fascinated To Presume

Author:Zadie Smith

“I, along with generations of women readers, have wondered: How could a man know so much of us? But the mystery is not so mysterious. Husbands know a great deal about wives, after all, and wives about husbands. Lovers know each other. Brothers know a lot about sisters and vice versa. Muslims and Christians and Jews know one another, or think they do. Our social and personal lives are a process of continual fictionalization, as we internalize the other-we-are-not, dramatize them, imagine them, speak for them and through them. The accuracy of this fictionalization is never guaranteed, but without an ability to at least guess at what the other might be thinking, we could have no social lives at all. One of the things fiction did is make this process explicit—visible. All storytelling is the invitation to enter a parallel space, a hypothetical arena, in which you have imagined access to whatever is not you. And if fiction had a belief about itself, it was that fiction had empathy in its DNA, that it was the product of compassion.”

Fiction Empathy Representation Novels Cultural Appropriation Fascinated To Presume

Author:Zadie Smith