I watched this video yesterday based on a book called the Empathetic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g). You know how you sometimes here a message over and over again and then one day you hear it again, only this time it sounds totally different, you connect with it in a new way, the idea comes to life.
That's what this video did for me around the idea of empathy. It was like a missing puzzle piece that clicked into place. Bottom line: if we want to end conflict and war and all the forms of oppression that we inflict on each other, we must learn to give and receive empathy.
There was a line in the film that really resonated with me: "empathy is the invisible hand." Perhaps the only way to really experience the divine is through empathetic understanding, it is the key to unlocking the secret of our interconnectedness.
I feel like a new convert to the church of empathetic understanding.
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