我很喜歡"與神對話第一集"(Conversations with God, book 1), 第83頁說, "愛", 其實就是所有情感的組合 (... the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.). 想要經驗全然的愛, 就必須經歷所有人性的情感 (for the soul to experience perfect love, it must experience every human feeling). 如此才能愛, 才能慈悲. 因為若不知道什麼叫悲傷, 就不能體會別人的悲.