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“And here we pass over to what our attitude should be toward another person’s inner

 

world. An absence of mercenary interest, of a certain curiosity and relishing of another

 

person’s experiences, should be combined in the first place with a strenuous goodwill, with

 

a sort of genuine  tirelessness. ...We must have the strength not to define generally what a

 

given person should or should not do but to define him for his own inner state… it is

 

dangerous to approach a person  with the yardstick  of all-measuring doctrine and begin

 

to dissect his living…”

                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                   Maria Skobtsova