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“Derived from the Greek word em (in) and pathos (feeling), the term empath refers to a person who is able to feel into the feelings of others.”
“Truth, simplicity and love. These are the three main aspects of Eden Fruitarianism which the acolyte seeks to embrace, expand and better understand.”
“Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories...”
“The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”
“Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.”
“I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'”
“No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.”
“A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind ...”
“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”
“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”
“Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.”
“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”
“But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”
“We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivat...”
“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”
