The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.