Martha Beck: Have a Heart

Have a Heart: The Empathy Workout

If everyone did Martha Beck's warm-up exercises, the world would be an altogether better place. Let's start with us.

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Developing a capacity for empathy and exercising it regularly delivers the oxygen of the spirit: love.

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