Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world more — the other word for which is kindness — is largely a matter of deepening our awareness and sharpening our attention on both sides of the skin that... See more

A great writer mimicking, on the page, the dynamic energy of human thought is as about as close as we can get to modeling pure empathy.