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Empathy vs. Compassion: What's the Real Difference?
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What is the actual difference between empathy and compassion? Alan Watts called compassion the cosmic wink that says I see you, fellow player. That is the whole of it.
Judgement is when we look up and decide she is lazy or he is attention seeking. Then somebody lists everything wrong with their day and we cannot stand it, usually because we do not like seeing our own mirror. When you let compassion in, you let in all your own flaws with it. The heart opens both ways or it does not open.
One thing to try: Next time somebody lists their troubles, notice what it stirs in you before you judge it.
In this episode
- (0:00) Compassion is the cosmic wink. I see you, fellow player
- (2:30) The judgement that says she is lazy, he is attention seeking
- (5:15) Somebody listing everything wrong with their day
- (7:39) My spasms, my cold, and everything going on
- (9:50) We do not like seeing our own mirror
- (12:13) Let it in and you let in your own flaws as well
- (14:48) An action, not a feeling. I see you and I feel you
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