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What is an analogy or a metaphor but a way to explain something that is challenging to wrap your head around. Now, do you actually wrap your head arou [...]

They are doing the best they can, those others you may find yourself judging.  Can you put yourself in their shoes?  Some people cannot, you know.  Th [...]

Could that person’s sour demeanor be pain?  Could their quietness mask desperation?  Humans are quick to judge without knowing what truly lies beneath [...]

You look at another and say, “Why would you want to do that?” And they look at you with equal wonder or perhaps even consternation and say, “Why would [...]

Disagreements.  They break up relationships, families, friendships.  At the root of this is finger-pointing and misunderstanding.  What is lacking is [...]

“I understand,” you say, but do you really?  Have you thoroughly and completely entered the mind of the other?  You can do so from a state of alignmen [...]

What is the root of resentment?  The answer is quite simple:  pain.  And it quite often has nothing to do with the person who is being resented.   “Oh [...]

When someone lashes out at you, if you know in your heart that your words or actions have not been hurtful, know that the other is projecting their ow [...]

No one can ever understand exactly what you are going through, what you are thinking, or where you have been.  They can only meet you where you are ba [...]

If you are empathic, you are sensitive to others’ emotions.  You feel their pain at times as if it is your own.  This can be, for the human, a blessi [...]