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Empathic Family & Parenting
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Empathy is the ability to comprehend with accuracy the precise thoughts and motivations of other people in such a way that they would say, "Yes, that is exactly where I'm coming from!"
When you have this extraordinary knowledge, you will understand and accept without anger why others act as they do even though their actions might not be to your liking.
David D. Burns Author: Feeling Good - The New Mood Therapy 
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Without empathy there is no way forward for civilization.
James O'dea.
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Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives and frees prisoners.....
those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy.
J.K. Rowling
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The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties.
There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you
Chuang-Tzu
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin.
It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
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To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.
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Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. Jen Knox
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person.
In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller
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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition.
Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.
Azar Nafisi
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"Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.” Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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"Without empathy we risk the breakdown of relationships, we become capable of hurting others, and we can cause conflict. With empathy we have a resource to resolve conflict, increase community cohesion, and dissolve another person’s pain. "
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Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have. The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives and frees prisoners.....
those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy. J.K. Rowling
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not – and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation – in its’ arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
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“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises.
If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.”
Daniel Goleman Author: Emotional Intelligence
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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http://bigthink.com/ Perhaps the depth and complexity of the human voice explains radio's unique power as a storytelling medium.
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
Henri Nouwen
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It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
Lydia Millet
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I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
films... to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage EMPATHY with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good, they could also be purely entertaining and there is nothing wrong with that.
Roger Ebert
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Moral imagination is the capacity to empathize with others, i.e., not just to feel for oneself, but to feel with and for others. This is something that education ought to cultivate and that citizens ought to bring to politics.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger, Prominent Psychiatrist
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