Nicely put. Doesn't empathy arise from love? Or maybe its the other way around, as you imply?

There's love that arises from Being (the light of Being that runs in our cores from tail-bone to the tops of our heads. Ego is easy to write about in comparison because I can define it.

When my Being looks at another it looks at the Being of another and not what ego does. From Being, Being embraces the whole world with every being on her including Earth Being with love.

When Being (in me) looks into the eyes of another and sees Being looking back then the bond of love - the cycle of giving and receiving is completed.