A little bit I've been working on for this biz.
https://koehn-consulting.com/blog/when-great-ideas-arent-enough
#empathy
A quotation of Schopenhauer, Arthur
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or thinks he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
“Further Psychological Observations,” Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism [tr. Saunders (1851)]
#quote #quotation #burden #compassion #empathy #hardness #indifference #self-pity #suffering #sympathy #trouble #unpitying
More notes and sourcing: https://wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/43252/
Unlock your love ...
#animals #love #vegan #vegetarian #food #nutrition #empathy #human #compassion #meat #milk #industry
Why Christians should become political radicals
' #Love-thy-neighbor ... the #Samaritan didn’t act because of religious beliefs but was “moved by #compassion.”
#garyolson #christianity #philosophy #history #politics #radical #mlk #empathy #jesus #good-samaritans
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.
— bell hooks
#quote #fear #separation #domination #anxiety #love #loving-kindness #empathy #bellhooks
Quote Investigator: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
Probably from Reverand John Whatson, pseudonym Ian MacLaren, in 1897.
The original form substitutes "pitiful" for "kind":
Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle
The archaic meaning being:
pitiful, A. adj. 1. Full of or characterized by pity; compassionate, merciful, tender. Now rare.
Modern terms might be charitable, empathetic, or understanding. I'll note that there are times when outright kindness is somewhat dampened by the fact that the other's battle seems to be pitched in whole or part against me.
A relatively modern (1965, Chicago Tribune) explanation expands the concept:
Most of us are acutely aware of our own struggles and we are preoccupied with our own problems. We sympathize with ourselves because we see our own difficulties so clearly. But Ian MacLaren noted wisely, “Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.”
MacClaren's own original explanation:
This man beside us also has a hard fight with an unfavouring world, with strong temptations, with doubts and fears, with wounds of the past which have skinned over, but which smart when they are touched. It is a fact, however surprising. And when this occurs to us we are moved to deal kindly with him, to bid him be of good cheer, to let him understand that we are also fighting a battle; we are bound not to irritate him, nor press hardly upon him nor help his lower self.
One element of the concept I refer to as #manifestation addresses this, in that personal lived experience and history are extraordinarily difficult to express or perceive, and that much behaviour which seems hostile or irrational may well have some validity in personal history.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
#quotes #kindness #charity #understanding #empathy #QuoteInvestigator #manifestation
What a peaceful build-up that evades ecological breakdown could look like
'To prevent #ecological #collapse and #create more #peaceful and #sustainable ways to #exist on this #planet, we can’t continue to make #growth and the #exploitation of #finite #resources the #center of our endeavors.'
#ninakoevoets #ecology #earth #economics #pandemic #poverty #climate #change #crisis #environment #awareness #global #nature #conflict #resolution #international #local #cultural #transformation #empathy #collaboration #compassion #interbeing #interdependence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e5MqBcXJeI
#hemp #cannabis #environment #housing #homelessness #cloudseeding #water #sociology #control #life #economics #money #corporatocracy #banking #privatizednations #plutocracy #plutarchy #resourcemanagement #resourcemismanagement #scarcity #manufacturedscarcity #technology #wehavethemeans #knowhow #design #disastercapitalism #thesamemistakes #insanity #neurology #endocannabinoidology #endocannabinoids #panacea #notpanacea #primaryregulatorysystem #conflictofinterest #moneymoneymoney #moneycorrupts #entourage #fear #pharmaceuticalsystem #empathy #selfdelusion #empowertheindividual #ceds #chronicendocannabinoiddeficiencysyndrome #homeostasis #cannabinoids #terpenes #flavinoids #synergy #madworld
When you are confident, secure and sovereign in your truth, your knowingness, you will not be threatened or insecure by anyone else’s truth. This means your truth is stemming from you not from the outer world.
Turning your back on someone, canceling someone, bullying, name calling, belittling are all behaviors stemming from trauma, programming and deep insecurity.
It’s a response from someone that is threatened by another’s truth.
When you are solid, sovereign, aligned and at peace with your truth, I promise you, the above behaviors will never resonate with you. You just won’t do them.
Confidence in who you are and what you believe breeds compassion and empathy for any other truth outside of yours.
You don’t have to accept it, obviously, but you can be the sovereign human you incarnated as and allow free will and diversity to exist amongst you.
Pay attention to divisive behavior disguised as honor. Anything that pulls humanity apart creating segregation is part of the problem not the solution.
We are here to rise above division. Cancel culture is division in the most deceptive way.
We aren’t here to cancel anyone. We are here to allow our hearts to remind us that this game we are playing is designed to be beat. We will see through the illusion of separation and eventually remember we have alway been unified.
Do not forget, this is the evolution in our human consciousness. This is not physical but energetic. Playing in the illusion of separation and divide is only perpetuating the collective shadow.
Stay in your heart ❤️
#lorieladd #cancel-culture #human #separation #unity #compassion #empathy #quote
“I am not claiming that #TV can save lives, but it can change temperatures, and those temperature changes in turn might save lives. #Empathy is a powerful tool in any argument, and disabled people need that empathy rather than #sympathy. People have been fighting these fights for a very long time, and frequently #disabled fights are isolated ones, ones where there is no grand #compassion from the population as a whole to hold the fight up.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Surveillance ☞ Surveillance, Roombacops, White Rage, and the End of #Empathy https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/23/surveillance-roombacops-white-rage-and-the-end-of-empathy/
“#Opinion is the lowest form of human #knowledge. It requires no #accountability, no #understanding. The highest form of knowledge is #empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self.” #Plato in ‘Phaedrus’
