Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon. The poet Walt Whitman wrote, “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” It is reasonable to ask whether we have the capacity to truly tune into other people’s experiences, particularly when they’re traumatic. Perhaps we get closest […]
B.J. Rich
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This I Believe New England: Empathy
Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon. The poet Walt Whitman wrote, “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Children Teaching Parents
Those of us who are parents seem to assume that one of our principal tasks in life is teaching our children how to navigate this remarkably complicated…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Empathy
Empathy – real empathy – is a mysterious phenomenon. It’s reasonable to ask whether we have the capacity to truly tune into other people’s experiences,…
