How does empathy enrich our lives? We feel peace and happiness in our own lives when we have helped others evolve to greater peace. In our relationships, we feel an expanded sense of spaciousness when we treat each other with compas…

One of the many challenges that parents face is teaching their children the concept of compassion and how important helping others simply for the sake of doing good is. It can be a bit difficult for little ones to grasp the concept of acting selflessly…

Robert Thurman talks about the compassion and empathy of the Buddhist saint from the 8th century, Shantideva. HE had a big influence on Tibetean BuddhismSee it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Why empathy is import at home and work and how to be better at it. Neuroscientists have recently discovered that humans are wired to experience empathy through multiple systems of mirror neurons in our brains. These mirror neurons refle…