You've heard people say that someone's very understanding. What do they mean by the word understand? I'm sure the true understanding is more than a sympathetic attitude or a tolerant feeling for the situation at hand. To really understand, a person must be able to project himself into the feelings, the heartache, the anxiety, the depression or the joy of the person going through the experience at hand. Is it possible to do this? Can we know what another person's feeling is, and experience that same feeling ourselves?