#humanity #brotherhood #compassion #community #love #bloomscrolling #agapanthus
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While I thought Pavlozitz’s blog post was quite good, it suffers from a poor disctinction between compassion and empathy. This confusion is widespread. I have recently caused an uproar on my timeline about this because most comments confound the two terms.
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. (Source: Wikipedia)
Compassion is a social [act] which motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in nature. (Source: Wikipedia)
If I were to sum it up, I would say that empathy, inate in human nature (possibly due to physionomy - mirror brain cells), allows us to feel as if in the mind of another — it’s an imagining that arouses deep-seated feelings, especially of suffering as the Other. Compassion, on the other hand, is a social act which results from moral/ethical imperatives which enables us to live harmoniously with Others. I.e. Empathy is not an act, whereas compassion is.
@RationalizedInsanity "No matter how badly I mess up in life:"
All you care about is better than other humans, the competition of defeating other low-programmed stupid idiot humans, that is #Egomania and you are expressing values of #Egoism that you are better than #Reddit #HiveMind better than #OutGroup that you are better than humanism because you won some contest of measure and logic and you know nothing of #Compassion is NOT logical.
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"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes." ~ Charles Dickens
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"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it." ~ Robertson Davies
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@AE4WX My ask: get #Compassion trained and stay current with training.
Stop being a hate-filled machine lover who dehumanizes #Autism people you don't grasp or understand.
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"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds." ~ Dalai Lama (born on 6 July 1935)
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Happy 90th Birthday to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
Our control lies in how we react to circumstances. Loving kindness is the best path forward, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=_3U29wpgVvqRubVF #mentalhealth #love #control #compassion #wisdom
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" - per the twisted 'mind' of #TrumpVirus & his #disinformation #cult
Independence - from #democracy - #compassion - #rationality - #rights - #justice - #childcare #healthcare - #reason -#civility #respect -- for starts! :-(
The indifference to the plight of others and the cult of the self is what the corporate state seeks to instill in us. That state appeals to pleasure, as well as fear, to crush compassion. … We will have to resist the temptation to fold in on ourselves and to ignore the injustice visited on others… As long as we defy these forces, we remain alive. And, for now, this is the only victory possible.
—Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class (2010)
#empathy #compassion #justice
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"Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (born on 4 July 1804)
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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap." ~ William Bennett
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... the brahmavihāra practices of goodwill, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity are the way to emotional perfection.
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"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." ~ Ernest Hemingway (died on 2 July 1961)
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