The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are…

Originally shared by Pearl White

The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we’re all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.

~ Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness?