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- Gary: Empathy is not surrendering your judgment. It is not abandoning your boundaries, Empathy begins with a pause. Not a dramatic pause, just enough space to ask, what might be happening for this person that I can't see yet? That question doesn't require you to guess someone's story or claim that you know exactly how they feel. We don't. Even when two people experience the same loss, rejection, divorce, illness, or disappointment, they don't experience it in exactly the same way. Empathy means we stay curious instead of acting certain. I may not fully understand, but I want to hear what this has been like for you. That sentence can be more helpful than a perfectly crafted piece of