PITY

"Pity is the experience of meeting pain with fear. It makes one want to change the givens of the moment: "I want you out of your pain because I want me out of my pain." Pity can be a very self-oriented emotional state, very densem very uncomfortable. Pity has a quality of considerable need about it."  . . Pity creates a sense of separation." p. 11, Healing into Life and Death, Stephen Levine