Quotes about Empathy

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since 'no thoughts are neutral,' every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell.

Making another person feel guilty will never build unity or goodwill; only blessing, not blaming, can do that. All judgment does is to shut people down emotionally and psychologically.

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all

everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

We're affected by other peoples' lovelessness only to the extent to which we judge them for it. Otherwise we are invulnerable to the ego, as the Son of God is meant to be.

By affirming that love is our priority in a situation

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.