that another experiences. Whereas sympathy pictures someone standing by another who suffers, to some extent “feeling his pain” from without, empathy envisions someone actually stepping into the same suffering in such a way that it allows him greater understanding of and participation in the experience. Well, then, is empathy the same as compassion? No. In empathy, one may more fully enter into another’s experience, but he does so no more than the suffering one does himself. He experiences the ordeal