Ursula Goodenough Quote

Once there is empathy, then there can be the feeling we call compassion. A version of the Golden Rule — Do unto others as you would have them do unto you — is found in most religious traditions. … and emergent from our sense of compassion, in mortal conflict with our insistent sense that we should win, is our haunting sense that things should be fair.


p. 114 - The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998)


Once there is empathy, then there can be the feeling we call compassion. A version of the Golden Rule — Do unto others as you would have them do...

Once there is empathy, then there can be the feeling we call compassion. A version of the Golden Rule — Do unto others as you would have them do...

Once there is empathy, then there can be the feeling we call compassion. A version of the Golden Rule — Do unto others as you would have them do...

Once there is empathy, then there can be the feeling we call compassion. A version of the Golden Rule — Do unto others as you would have them do...