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Do We Have an Instinctive Urge to Be Kind?

By Emiliana Simon-Thomas — 2019

When someone needs help, what is your first impulse?

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Searching for the Heart of Compassion

Call it love, kindness, compassion for all beings—it’s the real elixir, the only one that truly transforms life for ourselves and others.

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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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15 Traits that Kind People Exhibit Without Realizing It

There are certain traits that kind people have, and they may not even realize it. Since they are naturally kind-hearted, behaving in the way that they do comes easily to them.

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Trance of ‘Unreal Other’

The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.

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