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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation."

"Some people are highly empathic, some people are telempathic, or telepathic, some are clairempathic, while others are claircognizant, clairvoyant, clairaliant, clairaudient, clairgustant, clairsentient; and a very few are all of the above. The great amount of confusion and inner strife that accompanies one or more of these conditions, can be calmed and soothed first by acceptance, second by the humility to be okay with the fact that you are stuck with it forever, and third by honing these conditions to their best possible uses and most polished states."

"Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person's angel."

"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."

"To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land."
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"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."


"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."


"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
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