The woman is clearly not happy. So when you expand your own compassion to cover her, and try to put yourself in her shoes and feel her suffering. . . doesn’t that feel bad?
Maybe it feels bad for a short while… and for the rest of the day you are happy that you are not her?
While the selfish people spend their days annoyed that all their wishes are not immediately coming true.
Possible but from reading the book I think that interpretation is unlikely to be correct. The authors seemed to think empathy itself brought some joy even in these cases.
Maybe it feels bad for a short while… and for the rest of the day you are happy that you are not her?
While the selfish people spend their days annoyed that all their wishes are not immediately coming true.
Possible but from reading the book I think that interpretation is unlikely to be correct. The authors seemed to think empathy itself brought some joy even in these cases.