Cosmic Empathy

The ability to feel and act as if we were someone else—
that comes from a deep sense of connection we carry within.
It’s not just empathy. It’s something bigger.
It’s a cosmic emotion, a reflection of how we’re tied
to the universe that lives inside us.
It’s part of being human.
It gives us the power to align ourselves
with things beyond our own body,
to feel what others feel,
to care for what’s not ours.
We live in communities—
families, schools, workplaces.
We belong to larger ones too—
our country, our planet, even the universe.
And there’s another kind of community:
one of the heart.
It’s not bound by time or place.
It’s where we share cosmic emotion,
where “I” expands into “we,”
and “we” reaches toward everything.