"During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?"

-- Enrico Caruso

#Empathy Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire,”

Source : "Scaling the epic El Capitan: friends look to the finish in world's toughest climb" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2015.
“There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.”
“We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library
“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
“As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.”
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.”
“That's one of the things I wanted to explore, the idea that I don't agree with one bit, that to be Bulgarian is to be Christian and if you're Muslim you're a Turk. It's that sort of line of reasoning that's causing a lot of trouble. Because what does religion really have to do with anything? It's just a bizarre question.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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