RT Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن (@EveKeneinan)Thinking that "empathy is good" is like thinking "speech is good."Both are capacities that can be very good when used properly, but you can use speech to lie, and to threaten, to harm in a variety of ways.And empathy is like that too. It has narcissistic and sadistic and Machiavellian forms which are anything but good.I expressed this indirectly a few months ago by noting that "the best torturers have empathy."Of course they do. If they couldn't empathize with what you are ...

Rabbi Sharon Browse. [applause] >> So, I want to share with you today how a somewhat obscure ancient ritual changed my life and became my moral and spiritual north star through this time of so much heartache and division and uncertainty and pain. In the early 2000s, we launched EAR, which is a Jewish community that was inspired by the moral mandate to build a more just and loving world and dedicated to re-imagining Jewish life through intellectual and spiritual curiosity, piety, and irreverence, joy, and de ...

It's 6:30 at night and the building is quiet. The last teacher has gone home for the day. The hallways are dark, but my office light is still on.I am staring at my computer screen looking at an endless stream of emails and my mind is racing trying to figure out how I can finish all of my tasks for the day before I can finally go home to see my family. I'm physically present, but my spirit has checked out. This isn't an isolated incident.This is a quiet crisis that is simmering in our schools every single da ...

My peing opera mentor Mr. . Ray embodied everything I aspired to be. Despite being a male performer, he was excellent in playing female roles and had achieved remarkable success.Art is your sword, he once said, adjustment my poster during a practice section. Use it to pierce through ignorance and touch people's heart. To me, he was invincible.the man who performed from Beijing to Paris who had made traditional art feels revolutionary. When my mother told me that he has been diagnosed with HIV, I froze. The ...

What if we could find the "Bloom Effect" in our everyday lives? Something simple, yet powerful enough to inspire everyone around us. Haneul’s speech emphasizes the vital role literature plays in our lives, like carrying our voices, standing up for our future, and giving us the empathy we need to live our lives. It should be noted that by the time you listen to her speech, we don't just read to finish a chapter. We read to discover new perspectives, and we read to meet challenges that we have not gone throug ...

We're in this era of the internet where uh this is always surrounded by it and I don't blame anyone for not knowing what to do with it and this is just what I have done with it and um yeah I wrote a little turning negativity into productivity but that's also potential delusion right oh yeah about me. Um, I hesitate to talk about myself every time I'm on stage because I uh I'm about to sing songs that I've written about myself and I feel like that's too much on me already. But yeah, I'm a musician.Uh, which ...

In less than 10 minutes, I want our divided world to come a little closer together. You ever tried to change somebody's mind? To shift their perception or behavior to get somebody to think differently, vote differently, agree with you, get a friend out of a toxic relationship, or even get your teenager off of their phone. If you have, how'd it go? How do you respond when our friends, our neighbors, somebody on the internet makes a statement or asks a question that you perceive as a disagreement or their bod ...

RT BONESAW 🕊️ (@BonesawMD)Use peoples vulnerable moments to elevate them.You know this yourselfIt's one of the surest ways to invite good energy and luck into your life.- Someone you're not interested in shoots their shot at you & you decline them privately, but they come out of the interaction actually feeling better about themselves because of how you handled it.- Someone is clueless about a topic they should know about when discussing in a group –– you don't draw attention to it. Instead, you seamlessly ...

So, it was the first day of sophomore year of college, the year everyone said was the most difficult for engineering students. I had that nervous energy that many kids who like school get on the first day of school. fresh notebooks, new pencils, and I'm sitting there in the large computer science lecture with my light pink sorority shirt, white letters across the front, cappa cappa gamma, when the guy sitting next to me leans over and says, "Excuse me, this is CS 205. Do you need help finding your right cla ...

raising your hand isn't about always answering, is it. It's about the timing. It's about waiting.And it's also that you hope for the moment that you're chosen. And don't get me wrong, raising your hand, that's a great habit. It teaches you so much more. It teaches you patience. It teaches you order.It teaches you how to maintain discipline and decarim. But at some point a different question might strike to you. What if nobody calls out to you.So ladies and gentlemen, my name is Arin Paneker and for me today ...