Nurture
Father Forgets
A father reflects on his excessive criticism of his son, realizing the importance of understanding and appreciating his child's innocence, vowing to change his approach and embrace empathy and kindness.
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A Psychiatrist • Tweet
“We make each other special with our time and attention.”
“We are who happens to us
and what we make of the happening.”
People become people through other people.
– Ubuntu proverb
“We are who happens to us
and what we make of the happening.”
People become people through other people.
– Ubuntu proverb
Attention is the beginning of love.
So many people, adults and children, have never experienced having someone give them their undivided, focused, and attuned attention; they have not experienced love, fully.
And that’s a big reason people are broken.
Don’t let your life become a museum of artifacts reflecting your fear.
There is life to be lived.
“Tonglen: The Key to Realizing Interconnectedness
PEOPLE GENERALLY eat up the teachings, but when it comes to doing tonglen, they say, “Oh, it sounded good, but I didn’t realize you actually meant it.” In its essence, this practice is: when anything is painful or undesirable, breathe it in. In other words, you don’t resist it. You surrender to yours
... See moreYou don’t have to do things others do, or have things they have, at the expense of the deeper things you want. You really don’t. Almost everything is an option. You have full permission to ask yourself what really matters to you—whatever that is—and then optimize for that in all hard tradeoffs of life. You’re going to have to make some sacrifices a... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Don’t Sacrifice the Wrong Thing
The poet David Whyte said that "the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone, and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them, and to have believed in them, and so... See more
Jasmine Wang • attending to the other
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “ You become what you think about all day long.”
Mary Oliver said: “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”