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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
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"Compassion brings people together."
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Personal Development
"There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others."
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"Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely."
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"We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us."
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Personal Development
"The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?"
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"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them."
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Personal Development
"When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ['Looking for the unexpected']"
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"If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."
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"I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down at them while they are looking up at me. To enjoy a meaningful conversation, I'm quick to kneel beside them or pull up a chair to talk at the same height. Begin to recognize the orientation of other people and align yourself with their body position and physical needs so that you may connect on a more balanced and effective level."
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"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
Language
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
Experience
"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
Nation
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
World
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
Attitude
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
Content
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
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