Empathy Day

25/MARCH

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"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
-- Dhammapada 129:130

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
-- Charles Darwin

"You must not use your God-given body for killing God’s creatures, whether they are human, animal or whatever."
-- Yajur Veda 12:32

"A good deed done to an animal is like a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as cruelty to a human being"
-- Muhammad

"Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel."
-- Proverbs 12:10

### Empathy Day is a day to feel for others, particularly to animals. If they can feel, what must they be feeling?

### Empathy is not a virtue reserved for any demographic, culture or religion but a core responsibility of living in a world that contains more than just you, your family and your kind.

### Harm done to any another with the capacity to fear and suffer is just as bitter as harm done to you.

### This Empathy Day, why not look for opportunities to imagine the path of others less fortunate than yourself, particularly those that humans routinely injure without empathy.