Empathy enables us to reach across differences and connect as equals. It does so by cutting straight through the walls that we build up around us and allowing us to touch the core of our equality: the ability to experience pain and joy

17th Karmapa

from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society

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Further quotes from the book Interconnected:

• Thinking about the consequences of our collective actions
• Collective actions and attitudes
• Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
• Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
• Extend yourself and connect
• The opportunity to love
• Noticing the collective effects of our individual actions
• The full vividness of direct contact
• Time to act
• Recollecting kindness
• Outer and inner world
• Interdependent individual
• Freedom
• Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
• The best way to love oneself
• Gratitude
• Focusing on our inner interdependence
• A main condition for our selfishness
• Inner freedom is key
• His Loneliness