Quotes of: Empathy Keyword

There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out ...

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extend...

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are a waste of oxygen in this world. Without empathy, we ...

C. JoyBell C.

I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense, while compassion isn't a sense. Empathy is an affinity, a communion, a comprehension. They say that empathy is compassio...

C. JoyBell C.

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and the old man dies. (A Straw Man, Empathy) In everyone, there lives a superhero. (The Medicine Man, Empathy) Faith is the stro...

D.R. Mirror

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you profess to believe in; it doesn't matter how rich you are or how poor you are, what church you go to or what church you don't go to; the only measure...

C. JoyBell C.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a ...

Temple Grandin

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: W...

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Freedom from one man is just another one.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Dayananda Saraswati

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields...

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy isn't just something that happens to us - a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain - it's also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. Sometimes we care for an...

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

The Empathy Exams: Essays