- Ronald Vallecer
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1000 or more ways to describe empathy
Humans are social beings, and so too are ideas. An idea worth spreading I think is definitely EMPATHY! What does it mean to you? I'll start, for me empathy is the very fabric of humanity. From the onset of birth, facial, voice pitch and tone analysis enables the very beginning of a non-observable behaviour of understanding the emotions and thoughts of another sentient being. The ability or inability to empathise, for me is the greatest determiner of the quality of living, that is right! Not money, not valuables nor possessions! Everything we know about life, their value are all reflections of how we perceive them, which is in turn based on how we perceive our loved ones, friends, lovers, pets, society in general values them! What ever we do, whether we watch TV, surf the net, suicide bomb, scuba dive, even when we are in the most remote places of earth alone in solitude, our thoughts, our thoughts are never ours alone! A powerful weapon indeed! So there it is, Empathy, lets talk about it for a month, and perhaps with our collective perspective, we can make the world a better place, simply just by spending more time thinking about what others think and feel.
Edwin Rutsch
The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
The Culture of Empathy website is the largest internet portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews, videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion.
http://CultureOfEmpathy.com
Barry Palmer 50+
Seeing my wife smile, and the universe disappears for a moment.
When I read about a child starving, I dare not let myself feel.
Juniper Blue 10+
Empathy is what makes me stop .. when I am tired ... take a moment to listen to another person and realize that I am not alone .. the other person may be tired too .. . and with this knowing, together, we may still be kind and patient with eachother and even more understanding if/when one of us fails in this effort.
chen xin
we are all emotion animals and we are often easily moved by some wonders or maybe the just difference ,that is what we should learn .i will tell you a love story ,when i am 16years old i made my first girl friend .she is a very excllent
student ,and i often touched by her little behavior ,because i am a lodging student ,i can not wash my clothes in winter ,as usual.i often mail to my mother ,one time she want to help me wash my clother and it is a weekend .so i go to her house.when i enter her room i got shocked .she looks like a skilled one ,and she can cook and many other skills . maybe it is "i am to bad " so Highlight her advantages ,but indeed she is a excllent girl i met. i often think of that .
we are very easy to be moved .that is what i want to say .