Catalyst Quote by Peter Hans Kolvenbach

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

“As we develop our compassionate mind, we should feel an increasing sense of responsibility for the suffering of others and form a resolve to…

— Karen Armstrong

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

— Stephen Levine

Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart…

— William Fritz

“Some empathy must be learned and then imagined, by perceiving the suffering of others and translating it into one's own experience of suffering and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

— Donald Miller

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

— L. Whitney Clayton

A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates…

— Stephen Batchelor

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground…

— Stephen Batchelor