Matthieu Ricard - Neuroscience has proven that...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

French Clergyman

Born: Feb 15, 1946

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Suffering, Experience, Similar, Both, Area, Neuroscience, Empathy, True, Thus, Feels, Proven, Brain, Person, Who, Suffers

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