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Is empathy the current that brings about the awareness of our relatedness?

Empathy is the living current that dissolves separations, revealing that the 'other' is not other at all, but a bridge of the heart connecting us to all of life.

— Osho
According to Osho, empathy—not sympathy or apathy—is the living current that reveals our fundamental relatedness. In empathy, separations dissolve; the 'other' is no longer other, and a secret passage opens between beings. This communion joins you to the life current in people, animals, and trees; it is pure religiousness, the bridge of the heart.

Empathy means feeling another’s pain or joy as your own, showing we are all connected.