the thought of the day

[bigedshult]

Empathy...
   “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”

― Barbara Kingsolver

[linderlizzie]

That's a complicated definition for a really simple concept, isn't it, bigedshult? After all, it just means knowing how someone else feels in a certain situation and being able to have compassion for them. 

I looked it up. It is "the capacity to share or recognize emotions experienced by another sentient or fictional being."

I looked up Barbara Kingsolver also. She sounds like a pretty cool lady, but I don't like her romantic definition of empathy. I especially don't understand the concept of "every war is both won and lost."  Can you 'splain that one for me? I'm open to your interpretation.

[tfw6693]

  Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain. And most fools do. 

[sarabtrayior]

I don't want to think this much early in the morning... I just enjoy yours and enjoy my day, Thank You...

[hitch0403]

Some good examples thru Bible....

Scriptural Examples of Empathy
Jehovah is our prime example of empathy. Although perfect himself, he does not expect us to be perfect, “for he himself well knows the formation of us, remembering that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:14; Romans 5:12) Moreover, since he is aware of our limitations, ‘he does not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear.’ (1 Corinthians 10:13) By means of his servants and his spirit, he helps us find the way out.—Jeremiah 25:4, 5; Acts 5:32.
Jehovah feels personally the pain his people suffer. He told the Jews who had returned from Babylon: “He that is touching you is touching my eyeball.” (Zechariah 2: Keenly aware of God’s empathy, Bible writer David said to him: “Do put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?” (Psalm 56: How comforting to know that Jehovah remembers—as if they were written in a book—the tears his faithful servants shed as they struggle to keep their integrity!
Like his heavenly Father, Jesus Christ is sensitive to the feelings of others. When he healed a deaf man, he took him aside, likely so that his miraculous recovery would not unduly embarrass or startle him. (Mark 7:32-35) On another occasion, Jesus observed a widow about to bury her only son. He immediately sensed the pain she was suffering, approached the funeral procession, and resurrected the young man.—Luke 7:11-16.

[PrettySingh]

My thought of the day would be :

" You may not know
what is going to
happen when you try,
but if you do not try,
Nothing will happen.

So....KEEP TRYING   

[bigedshult]

Thank you all for your thoughts and comments. I will post more comments every now and then about plots other day that I find online