To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. 157
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What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted 176
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The problem with certainty is that it is static it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty by contrast is full of unknowns possibilities and risks. 65
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