Let us say that someone in pain comes into your experience and as you see them in their painful situation, a desire wells up inside of you that they find the way out of their painful situation, so their pain only brushed you slightly as you quickly identified your desire for their joyful solution. If you then turn your undivided attention to their successful resolution of their painful situation, you would feel no real pain, and you could be a catalyst to inspire an actual solution for them. That is an example of what true upliftment is. However, if you only focus upon their pain, or upon the
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