A friend listens to our words but hears our heart. His thoughts were slow, his words were few, and never formed to glisten. But he was a joy to all his friends. You should have heard him listen. The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.
Most people are basically unconscious, unaware.
There is no greater reward or accomplishment in life than to develop the art of empathy in a relationship with a friend which enables us to enter into the depths of one's own life, as well as our friend's, and blend the two together. Empathy is putting on the other person's glasses, walking in the other person's shoes, entering into the depths of the other person's spirit. Share some of the times when you felt one of them seemed to enter into your feelings with you. We cannot fight those for whom we feel empathy. When war breaks out between nations, both of the opposing governments must destroy any and all empathy with the enemy.