In this inspiring interview by Oscar di Montigny, Patch Adams, famous physician and clown, touches on many issues like self-confidence, love, compassion.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver
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Tania Singer, expert in social neuroscience at Max Planck Institut, studied brain reactions to empathy and compassion.
People with a lot of empathy want to change that to compassion so they don’t get overwhelmed when confronted with suffering.
Read the full article at:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/12/tania-singer-compassion-burnout
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