Q. Is it not sometimes to become insensible to the pain of others to just look at them and not share with them? A. But I have said: playing with death is rising above sensible and insensible. Because sensible and insensible has a certain stage. One can rise above that stage; then all is sensible. Besides, you can always find among those who play death or who have played death, they have been the most sympathetic and the most open to the pain of others. Because when they are playing death, automatically they are playing life too. And therefore although they are as dead to all the wrong things that come to them, they are alive to everything that can go from them to the others.