Path Quotes - Page 51

Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.