On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.
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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
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.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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