It seems that either I have a missive in my email box each morning that says “dude, you sound depressed” or one that says “you seem to be moving forward quite well” – people are reading the same entry and getting completely different ideas of what life is like in my world. It’s very curious. <\/p>\n
So a friend sends this to me this morning in hopes that I will see the light or what has been an omission in my life – this she gets from reading Oprah at 2:45 AM:<\/p>\n
To emphathize literally means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to suffer with,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to share the pain of other beings so entirely that their agony becomes our own. The reason to develop a capacity for empathy, and then exercise it regularly, is that only a heart strengthened by this kind of understanding can effectively deliver the oxygen of the spirit: love. Love requires connection between lover and beloved, and empathy is the quiet miracle by which this connection is forged. When you share others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 suffering, you also share their experience of receiving your gift \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the gift of being accompanied into grief or anguish rather than bearing it alone\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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