Quotes about Empathy

We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.

Truly accepting love, forgiveness, and healing is often much harder than giving it.

The situation which brought about your pain was simply the form in which you came in touch with the human condition of suffering.

As the Beloved ones, our greatest fulfilment lies in becoming bread for the world. That is the most intimate expression of our deepest desire to give ourselves to each other.

Real loneliness comes when we have lost all sense of having things in common. When

Thus the authority of compassion is the possibility for each of us to forgive our brothers and sisters, because forgiveness is only real for those who have discovered the weakness of their friends and the sin of their enemies in their own hearts, and are willing to call each human being their sister and brother.

When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us.

We resist getting near the suffering of another partly out of our unwillingness to suffer ourselves.

If you believe that you are the beloved, you can offer forgiveness, even when it cannot be received.

Healing encounters and deep communion with others come about from persons who have experienced at least a taste of love offering love to another, without manipulation or subtle games.

When our love grows from God's love we no longer divide people into those who deserve it and those who don't. It is this love that allows us to see the enemy as someone loved with the same love with which we are loved.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others