Final Thought

There is Tolerance that doesn’t care. That just looks the other way and goes about its own business. Indifferent Tolerance.

Then there is the opposite: the kind of caring that cares for everybody, no matter who they are—but doesn’t allow them to step outside the path you believe to be good for them.
Suffocating Tolerance.

And then there is compassionate Tolerance. The kind that recognizes another person’s right to grow, their need to travel along a path and get there on their own—and yet has the compassion to be there for them when they are lost.

True compassion has room for a thousand private journeys.

From the works of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson