“And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far.
Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far?
To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.”
Source: The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
“پدرم گفت قبل از هر چیز به اطلاعتان برسانم که همسرم دیگر چیزی نمیشنود؛ اگر چه جسمش اینجاست ولی روحش جای دیگری است. نه چیزی ح میکند و نه حرفی میزند. هیچ چیز هم نمیبیند. با این وجود اگر از من دور شود شروع به گریه میکند.
میگویند او بیش از حد توانش متحمل درد و رنج شده است و تصمیم گرفته دیگر درد و رنج نکشد. خودش را از دنیای ما کنار کشیده.”
“Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.”
Source: Twenty Boy Summer
“The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.”
Source: Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
“Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“I’m helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are “near enemies” to every great virtue—reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path. Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can’t possibly make a difference. The wise Buddhist anthropologist and teacher Roshi Joan Halifax calls this a “pathological empathy” of our age. In the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can be done. Love can’t help but stay present”
Source: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.”
Source: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
“We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience
“Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Ask yourself if you’re taking the time to see beyond the surface.”
Source: The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience