It’s almost as if suffering is a result of the conflict between thought and feeling. It is. Thought means moving away from being truly conscious of things, moving away into ideas, into separation. It doesn’t work. This is why a person who lives in empathy will pick up other people’s feelings very easily, their troubles as well as their joys, and experience precisely what they’re going through; not necessarily their thoughts, and not necessarily wholly their emotions, but they will come to know them, as people. In that way, you come to understand other people, and accept them for what they are.
