@bellanazzari cuz it is perhaps better to view the world through the reflection in someone else’s eyes.
What does the world look like when you sneak a peak through someone else's eyes?
I've often tried this practice in my own life, walking around and about in the world....trying to visualize what it is that someone else sees in the same places and spaces we share together, if only for a moment.
For me, it helps break the monotony of my own inner... See more
I've often tried this practice in my own life, walking around and about in the world....trying to visualize what it is that someone else sees in the same places and spaces we share together, if only for a moment.
For me, it helps break the monotony of my own inner... See more
Thanks For Not Being a Dick: A Tiny Book of Biq Questions, Unconventional Lessons and Mini Meditations to Fall Back in Love with the World (and your life)
See beyond yourself whenever possible. See what happens when you de-center your own singular life and show up for the pains and joys of other people. See what shifts in you when you tether yourself to your inherent connectedness by way of empathy. See what changes when you stop thinking about yourself so much. I say this so lovingly
To find your own story in the tale of someone completely unlike you is the mark of a kind soul.
If I want to see you, I want to see, at least a little bit, how you see the world. I want to see how you construct your reality, how you make meaning. I want to step, at least a bit, out of my point of view and into your point of view.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
When you realize that you – the good, noble, well-meaning, even-tempered, fact-driven person that you are – have views of how the world works that are sure to be incomplete if not completely wrong, you should have empathy for others whose deluded beliefs are obvious to you.