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Compassion & empathyquotes

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FindCenterFor me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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bell hooks
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FindCenterWithout opening your door, you can open your heart to the world.

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Lao Tzu
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FindCenterThe more we understand our own minds, the more we understand everyone else. We increasingly feel the commonality of our human condition, of what creates suffering and how we can be free.

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Joseph Goldstein
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FindCenterPeople who are hurting don’t need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witness. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpful vigil to our pain.

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Glennon Doyle
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FindCenterNo one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.

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Brené Brown
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FindCenterOne fire burns out another’s burning, one pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish.

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William Shakespeare
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FindCenterI know many lives worth living.

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Mary Oliver
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FindCenterEverything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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Ram Dass
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FindCenterConsider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

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Sam Harris
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FindCenterCompassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. . . . Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

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Henri Nouwen
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