“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?”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”
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“I can't tell just exactly what's happened. It's just that I exposed something, shook it up and turned it around; and when I put it back it felt better.”
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