empathy...

empathy
(far from perfect)

“...everywhere I look I see myself.
There I go: that bald man, this angry child,
that fearful cat, that cool stone,
that bubbling brook,
that worm struggling for its life,
that bird desperate to feed her hungry babies,
that one trapped in his rage,
this one anxious but fearful of finding out why.
Hardly strangers!
Empathy is the life of the soul, I think,
because the soul that allows us to see
the one in the other
is the soul that finds joy.”
- Claudia Michele