Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
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 about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.