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#219 - The Power of Compassion

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Neuroscience of Compassion

Compassion is often conflated with empathy and sympathy and pity. It needs to be differentiated even from something that's integral to it, something like loving kindness. Compassion is different in the sense that it is associated with suffering. But you have a very strong motivational desire to alleviate that suffering.

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