and as you think of distant others
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Empathy: allowing their experience in, without falling into it
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
While empathy is essential, if we over-identify with the person or people hurting, the empathy turns into empathic distress, where our own discomfort ironically takes center stage. We collapse or run away.
Sharon Salzberg • Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Forever grateful for this poem becoming the defining moment of ‘(Sorry I Was Miles Away) In the Year of Romance’. Almost six months since I first posted it and I still receive message every single day from people saying that they choose to stay alive another night after hearing it. Or they sent it to a friend who needed it. Or they came back to it ... See more
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