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"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."
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"Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people."
"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."
"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
"The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed - let these be your God."
"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
"If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care."
"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant."
"They are the humans, who are uniquely adorned with the priceless characteristic of empathizing. They are the humans who shed tears full of purity and piety, when they see even a complete stranger in pain and misery. They are the humans who come together to save a kid in the neighborhood when he is trapped under the wreckage of his fallen home, regardless of caste, creed and religion."
"Your heightened awareness of their perceptions, experiences, emotions, and personality styles can reveal why they feel the way they do so that you can choose your responses wisely and compassionately."
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"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
"When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring."
"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."
"Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience."
"When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life."
"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
"Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives."
"As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it."
"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."
"When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness."
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