I mean... one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... d'you see what I mean?" So, "coming in from the cold" also means displaying a fundamental human empathy, of living with sympathy for others.
When we role-model kindness and kindness fundamentals like empathy and generosity ourselves, kids can see them in action and be inspired to practice them.
That acerbic condescension reflects one of this country's fundamental problems: an empathy gap.
If white Americans can't feel even a hint of this alienation and outrage, it is a fundamental failure of empathy and historical memory.
The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others.
"The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others," he wrote.
I prefer to consider solidarity as a fundamental expression of empathy, something that any Hindu should elevate above all else.
Second, more than ever, Obama's speech gave insight into his commitment to the core values of unity and hope -- coupled with the even more fundamental values of empathy and responsibility.
In our humanity, as much as in our vanity, we may defensively insist that our recognition of the immorality of torture requires no more than the empathy fundamental to distinguishing what is humane and what isn't.
Emotional contagion, a fundamental component of empathy resulting when the emotion of one individual evokes a matching emotional state in another individual (Preston and de Waal, 2002), has been demonstrated in rodents (Chen et al., 2009; Langford et al., 2006).
