Condemnation Is a Moral Achievement

The truly religious person has this attitude. To take the opposite position and to agree with the patient off hand isal of no use, but estranges him as much as condemnation. Feeling comes only through unprejudiced objectivity. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate. It oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person i condemn, not his friend and fellow sufferer. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult in actual life.