Sometimes we may believe we are acting from love, but if our action is not based in deep understanding, it will bring suffering. You may want to make someone happy, and you believe very strongly that you are doing something out of love. But your action may make the other person suffer very much. So even though you believe you are acting from love, you cause your son or daughter, your partner or spouse, your friend or coworker to suffer deeply because you do not have enough understanding of that person. That is why you need the eye of understanding, of wisdom, to be an effective instrument of compassion.
---Thich Nhat Hanh---
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