Monday, July 22, 2013

Have Empathy in Your Heart?


In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
 
Paramahansa Yogananda(gratefulness.org)
 
I like the word empathy rather than sympathy. Sympathy means feeling FOR someone. Empathy means feeling WITH someone.
 
 
Wikipedia: Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion.

 

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