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Empathy bridge

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Empathy bridge

Jan 9, 2020
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Empathy bridge

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To hold someone else suspended in your consciousness.

Holding them up to the light, not to inspect them, but to imagine on their behalf, their own possible goodness.

To assess their needs, to wonder about their hopes, to spend time wishing for what they wish.

Like a shopkeeper inspecting precious, life-like figurines, one by one, picking them off the shelf…

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