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Chapter 16: The Forgiveness of Illusions, I. True Empathy, P 4. 1-28-20

I. True Empathy P 4
T-16.I.4. True empathy is of Him Who knows what it is. 2 You will learn His interpretation of it if you let Him use your capacity for strength, and not for weakness. 3 He will not desert you, but be sure that you desert not Him. 4 Humility is strength in this sense only; that to recognize and accept the fact that you do not know is to recognize and accept the fact that He does know. 5 You are not sure that He will do His part, because you have never yet done yours completely. 6 You cannot know how to respond to what you do not understand. 7 Be tempted not in this, and yield not to the ego’s triumphant use of empathy for its glory.

Journal
What is required of me is full surrender. I don’t know what to say or do in any situation. I don’t know what anything means or what it is for. There have been times when I thought I did know. Someone was suffering and I thought that I knew how they felt and why. What I meant was that I knew how I would feel in that situation. And even then, I did not have what it would take to answer their fear based on my own feelings and my past experiences.
What a relief it is to know that I am not alone in responding to suffering. The sad fact of the matter is that I still believe in suffering. Not so much as I used to, but once in a while, I feel an answering pain and for that moment, I have joined in their suffering and made it stronger. This is not a helpful response, not for them, for me or for the Sonship. I remember that I am never alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts and so I want to offer my brothers healing and love, not pain and suffering. I want to teach strength, not weakness.

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