Empathy for living things

"Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one's own experience." - Jacob A. Belzen

"We will never be able to inhabit the conscious state of another person. Our subjectivity is an inviolable, unenterable state. On the other hand, there's much in the new neurology to suggest that empathetic links have also been evolutionarily selected for. The brain has these amazing curcuits, mirror neuron circuits, which are actively firing and activating motor and visual circuits simply as simulations of other people's activities. That suggests the brain itself is manufacturing empathy circuits that allow us to participate in rich and complicated ways in the sensibilities, actions and motivations of other people." - Richard Powers

"Mortality is a fact of life that is hard to bear.

Human beings are the only animals who have to live with the knowledge that they will die one day, and they have always found this vision of extinction difficult to contemplate.

Most of us manage to find some solace in the happiness and affection that is also part of the human experience.

Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of reality, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedies of life can be devastating.

From the very earliest times, men and women devised religions to help them cultivate a sense that our existence has some ultimate meaning and value.

Sometimes the myths and practices of faith seem like some incredible fantasy.

People then turn to other methods of transcending the sufferings and frustrations of daily life: to art, music, sex, drugs, sports or philosophy.

We are beings who fall very easily into despair, and we have to work very hard to create within ourselves a conviction that life is good, even though all around us we see pain, cruelty, sickness and injustice." - Karen Armstrong

Spiritually corrupt humans scoff at human empathy for living things.

Empathy for living things is not a weakness.

Empathy for living things is a biological imperative

- we are dependent upon life to live ourselves.

"In the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says: "lf you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you."

The Gospel of Truth teaches to stretch out your hands to those who are sick and to awaken those who are asleep. God's Will is that all human beings come to compassion.

I take gnostic statements emotionally; it's an image of the truth, illumination and divine presence to be found in every human being. It teaches that within every human life is a bit of the divine source, and everything comes from that source. All life is to be respected as coming from God." - Elaine Pagels

"Humanity is given dominion over animals, and has the right to use animals for legitimate needs. Animal flesh can be consumed for food; animal skins can be used for clothing; the Torah itself must be written on parchment, that is, animal hides. However, we are permitted to use animals in this way only when there is a genuine, legitimate need, and we must do so in the manner that causes the animal the least suffering. Hunting for sport is strictly prohibited, and hunting and trapping for legitimate needs is permissible only when it is done in the least painful way possible." - Mechon Mamre

All spiritually uncorrupt humans feel sorrow in the end of a life, human or animal.

Gardeners even feel sorrow in the end of plant life.

Humans have cared for each other, animals and plants for time immemorial.

Each and every human see the parallels between the emotions we feel for each other and
the emotions we feel for our cats, our dogs and for all the other creatures we treasure.

Humans sometimes feel closer to animals than other humans
which is especially true of young children with few playmates in a similar stage of development.

The Earth is undergoing the sixth big extinction in Earth's history, this one caused by humans.

In a detailed series of population surveys that combed virtually every square yard of England, Scotland and Wales over 40 years, more than 20,000 volunteers counted each bird, butterfly and native plant they could find.
They reported in March, 2004 issue of Science that populations of bird and butterflies were in sharp decline of
54% to 71 %, with some species gone altogether. Two surveys of 1,254 native plant species showed a decrease of about 28% over the same period.

Hundreds of the Earth's animal species are in imminent danger of extinction, primarily in tropical mountains and islands in developing nations. While more than 10% of the Earth's landmass is afforded some environmental protection, efforts are not being focused in places that have the greatest concentration of imperiled species. Scientists concluded in their multi-year study that urgent action is necessary to prevent hundreds of unique complex species from going extinct.

The multi-year study found that at least 300 critically endangered species of animals exist in unprotected areas as well as 237 critically endangered and 267 vulnerable species. A critically endangered species is defined by the World Conservation Union as having a 50% probability of extinction within 10 years.

"This is the tip of the iceberg," said Ana Rodrigues, a research fellow at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at the Washington-based Conservation International. "There is a window of opportunity here. Many species across the face of Earth are hanging on to little bits of habitat."

Ana Rodrigues identified sites in the Andes, in Sierra Madre mountains in southern Mexico, on islands in Southeast Asia, on Madagascar and in southern India as areas of high biodiversity and low protection. These regions are well known to international conservation organizations for their importance.

"All living beings feel pain. Only arrogant humans feel they are somehow entitled to ignore this simple fact." - Tim I. Martin

Redemption from spiritual corruption comes simply by respecting each and every individual life.

Redemption from spiritual corruption comes from following God's Natural Laws.

Let us pray mankind will awaken in the hope that Rachel Carson's vision of a lifeless future never comes to pass.

Empathy for life is one of the things that separates human consciousness from the from animal consciousness.

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