When is empathy good or bad?
So maybe Oasis had it right…
Don’t empathize with suffering – have compassion instead. Compassion = when you suffer you can choose to have it teach you compassion for others. A lesson I am still learning. Too often I’ve empathized with others suffering which has lead to my own suffering which makes me less useful. If I let suffering drive me to compassion I become MORE useful to my world.
The greatest punishment for martyr-minded people is to allow them to live.
Killing them only fulfills their greatest wish.
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Terrorist’s are made – not born.
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Reacting to terrorism with military and police terrorism, is not defeating terrorism. It Justifies it.
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We create our own enemies through marginalisation, seclusion and economic poverty.
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Fighting martyr-minded people is like trying to heal a heroin addict by giving them cocaine.
Enjoy this scene from a wonderful movie PARADISE NOW (2006) in which the main character, Said, explains why he becomes a suicide bomber.
Sami Yusuf – FORGOTTEN PROMISES
Maher Zain – LOVE WILL PREVAIL
As-salāmu `alaykum
The thoughts listed above are my own. Any similarity to other quotes is purely incidental and accidental.
Believe that you are more than any given circumstances you find yourself in.
Rise up and live the “more” that is you within the circumstances.
The power is in living and realizing that “more” is not only knowing but
Being and acting on that being.
... on being and becoming ... 