Shoeless & Clueless
August 26, 2010Empathy is the ability to put yourself into another person’s shoes. A lack of empathy is to render the other person shoeless, & yourself, clueless.
Empathy is the ability to put yourself into another person’s shoes. A lack of empathy is to render the other person shoeless, & yourself, clueless.
Courage to speak up when you’re expected to remain silent Magnanimity to remain silent when you want so much to speak up It didn’t occur to me that Courage & Magnanimity are Antonyms Foolishness to speak up when you’re expected to remain silent Cowardice to remain silent when you want so much to speak up [...]
in our daily lives, we hear many voices, we see many faces. listen only to the voices that matter, remember the familiar faces. do we want our voice to be drowned out by all the other voices? do we want our face to be lost in the faceless crowd? in a sea of voices, where’s your voice? in [...]
“not with the eyes, but with the mind…” — Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. What you see is what you see; what you think about is the difference.
what do you believe in? what defines you? what’s your calling? what do you stand for? stand up for them. & stand firm. you have to. that’s the difference.
“Maybe, in the end, even the lies we tell define us. And better, some of them, than our most earnest attempts at the truth.” — Malouf, David. Johnno. do we really want the lies we tell to define us? perhaps, the mission i was hoping to embark on was a mission beyond a hapless individual, [...]