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  2. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "Discover how to better understand yourself and create a fuller, richer life" Sale: $16.11 to $1.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,628 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Psychology #Sensitivity #Wellness #Books #Empathy #BookSky

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  3. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  4. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  5. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  6. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  7. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  8. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  9. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  10. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  11. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  12. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  13. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying. This, I suppose, affords the basis for the further developments.
       The two enlargements that are needed are: first, to feel sympathy even when the sufferer is not an object of special affection; secondly, to feel it when the suffering is merely known to be occurring, not sensibly present. The second of these enlargements depends mainly upon intelligence. It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #factsandfigures #loveyourneighbor #sensitivity #statistics #stranger #suffering #sympathy #understanding

  14. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying. This, I suppose, affords the basis for the further developments.
       The two enlargements that are needed are: first, to feel sympathy even when the sufferer is not an object of special affection; secondly, to feel it when the suffering is merely known to be occurring, not sensibly present. The second of these enlargements depends mainly upon intelligence. It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #factsandfigures #loveyourneighbor #sensitivity #statistics #stranger #suffering #sympathy #understanding

  15. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying. This, I suppose, affords the basis for the further developments.
       The two enlargements that are needed are: first, to feel sympathy even when the sufferer is not an object of special affection; secondly, to feel it when the suffering is merely known to be occurring, not sensibly present. The second of these enlargements depends mainly upon intelligence. It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #factsandfigures #loveyourneighbor #sensitivity #statistics #stranger #suffering #sympathy #understanding

  16. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying. This, I suppose, affords the basis for the further developments.
       The two enlargements that are needed are: first, to feel sympathy even when the sufferer is not an object of special affection; secondly, to feel it when the suffering is merely known to be occurring, not sensibly present. The second of these enlargements depends mainly upon intelligence. It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #factsandfigures #loveyourneighbor #sensitivity #statistics #stranger #suffering #sympathy #understanding

  17. The Highly Sensitive Person: Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "20-30% of people have this amazing, innate trait. Maybe you are one of them" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,616 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Sensitivity #MentalHealth #Relationships #Empathy #BookSky

    The Highly Sensitive Person: T...

  18. A quotation from Fran Lebowitz

    Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

    Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950) American journalist, essayist
    Interview (2021-02-17), BBC Newsnight

    More about this quote: wist.info/lebowitz-fran/81525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franlebowitz #humancondition #offending #offense #outsideworld #sensitivity

  19. A quotation from Fran Lebowitz

    Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

    Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950) American journalist, essayist
    Interview (2021-02-17), BBC Newsnight

    More about this quote: wist.info/lebowitz-fran/81525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franlebowitz #humancondition #offending #offense #outsideworld #sensitivity

  20. A quotation from Fran Lebowitz

    Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

    Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950) American journalist, essayist
    Interview (2021-02-17), BBC Newsnight

    More about this quote: wist.info/lebowitz-fran/81525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franlebowitz #humancondition #offending #offense #outsideworld #sensitivity

  21. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    Of course no one is so sensitive as you, but try to remember they think they are.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1966)

    More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #migonmclaughlin #others #perspective #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #sensitivity

  22. A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

    Of course no one is so sensitive as you, but try to remember they think they are.

    Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
    The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1966)

    More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #migonmclaughlin #others #perspective #selfabsorption #selfcenteredness #selffocus #sensitivity

  23. A quotation from Orwell

    One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 3, New Road (1943-06)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80417/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civilization #crassness #disgust #emotion #emotionalism #feelings #passion #safety #sensitivity #declasse

  24. A quotation from Orwell

    One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 3, New Road (1943-06)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80417/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civilization #crassness #disgust #emotion #emotionalism #feelings #passion #safety #sensitivity #declasse