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 Humans seem to make the same immediate connection between the tone of voice and other vocal expressions and inner feeling. Empathy is distinctly different from sympathy, pity, and emotional contagion. Sympathy or empathic concern is the feeling of [[Compassion]] or concern for another, and the wish to see them better off or happier. Pity is feeling that another is in trouble and in need of help as they cannot fix their problems themselves, often described as "feeling sorry" for someone. Emotional contagion is when a person (especially an infant or a member of a mob, group consciousness) imitatively "catches" the emotions that others are showing without necessarily recognizing this is happening.
-The goal of spiritual development is to be fully present and aware to emotional states and to choose the emotional states one expresses, in stead of being at the whim of the undisciplined emotional states generating from the [[Pain Body]]. o<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy Empathy]</ref>
+The goal of spiritual development is to be fully present and aware to emotional states and to choose the emotional states one expresses, in stead of being at the whim of the undisciplined emotional states generating from the [[Pain Body]]. <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy Empathy]</ref>
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