As we control?

If there is something over which we have absolute control and did not even realize this thing is our thinking. Controlling it is the only way to control our destiny.
And often we have this example in nature, for example, the birds, they teach us more than we realize ...
When an eagle is flying over a huge valley in search of hunting. From the top, it has a panoramic view that includes thousands of things, big and small, all within reach of his gaze. Amidst all this confusion of images, it is looking for one thing, the one that matters to her: hunting. Nothing can distract it from this purpose. Thinking is precisely just that.

Sympathy vs Empathy

Sympathy is a result of our personality, it happens at the level of appearances and therefore can be feigned. Empathy comes at a deeper level, it happens at the level of understanding. To be empathetic, you need to understand the other.

Spirit Science 2 - Chakras

Spirit Science 1 - Thoughts

...continue the explain

In cases in which good or evil thoughts are projected at individuals, those thoughts, if they are to directly fulfil their mission, must find, in the aura of the object to whom they are sent, materials capable of responding sympathetically to their vibrations. Any combination of matter can only vibrate within certain definite limits, and if the thought-form be outside all the limits within which the aura is capable of vibrating, it cannot affect that aura at all. It consequently rebounds from it, and that with a force proportionate to the energy with which it impinged upon it. This is why it is said that a pure heart and mind are the best protectors against any inimical assaults, for such a pure heart and mind will construct an astral and a mental body of fine and subtle materials, and these bodies cannot respond to vibrations that demand coarse and dense matter. If an evil thought, projected with malefic intent, strikes such a body, it can only rebound from it, and it is flung back with all its own energy; it then flies backward along the magnetic line of least resistance, that which it has just traversed, and strikes its projector; he, having matter in his astral and mental bodies similar to that of the thought-form he generated, is thrown into respondent vibrations, and suffers the destructive effects he had intended to cause to another. Thus "curses [and blessings] come home to roost." From this arise also the very serious effects of hating or suspecting a good and highly-advanced man; the thought-forms sent against him cannot injure him, and they rebound against their projectors, shattering them mentally, morally, or physically. Several such instances are well known to members of the Theosophical Society, having come under their direct observation. So long as any of the coarser kinds of matter connected with evil and selfish thoughts remain in a person's body, he is open to attack from those who wish him evil, but when he has perfectly eliminated these by self-purification his haters cannot injure him, and he goes on calmly and peacefully amid all the darts of their malice. But it is bad for those who shoot out such darts.