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Empathy

Fiḍál (Grace), 14 Kamál (Perfection) 175 B.E. - Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Get your eyes off your smartphone,
look around you
take notice of your fellow human being.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 2095
"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me." Alexander Pope, from the poem Universal Prayer https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/universal_prayer_14949. Let this quote from Alexander Pope inspire your blog entry?

Empathy

Empathy
feeling another person's woe.
Can it be learned?
Yes or no.

Empathy is an important spiritual virtue because it helps individuals understand the suffering and woes of their fellow human beings. Can empathy be taught? No. Can empathy be learned? Maybe. Learning something is a completely different process from teaching something. Since empathy is a spiritual attribute, everyone (whether they use the attribute or not) has a certain amount of empathy.

Empaths are highly sensitive and can use their empathetic ability naturally. While the rest of us have to work a little harder at expressing empathy. I know, from personal experience, that there are times when I am capable of showing and expressing empathy to others. I notice that the times I am capable of expressing empathy is when I am aware of how others are acting, and when I observe my surroundings. Times I am living in the moment.