Border Quote by Leslie Jamison
““Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?””
About This Quote
Source Essay: The Empathy Exams, 2014
Empathy is an immersive journey into another’s experience, like crossing borders to understand foreign lands.
In simple terms: Empathy requires entering others’ worlds.
Key Takeaway
Practice active listening.
Themes
empathy
connection
culture
Mood
introspective
compassionate
Type
literary
philosophical
When to use this quote
- counseling
- travel
- conflict resolution
Key Concepts
psychology
anthropology
communication
Questions to Reflect On
- What borders do you keep?
- How can you broaden understanding?
A Different Perspective
Empathy can be selective.
