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:

• Outer and inner world
• Self-reliance
• The best way to love oneself
• Everything and everyone is benefiting you
• Limitless aspirations
• When we ignore our interdependence
• Freedom
• We hold nothing back
• Keeping the door to improvement open
• Thinking about the consequences of our collective actions
• Naturalness
• The workings of interdependence
• Being an interdependent individual
• Inner freedom is key
• The ability to experience genuine closeness
• Becoming stuck in a quagmire of self-obsession
• Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
• Our innate ability to connect with others
• Interdependence always works both ways
• Enjoying the goodness of what you are doing