Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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.
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
True contentment comes with empathy.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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