Sublime

The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.

Walden,

the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”

A person is a point of view. Every person you meet is a creative artist who takes the events of life and, over time, creates a very personal way of seeing the world.

A good conversationalist is capable of leading people on a mutual expedition toward understanding.

To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.

“The shape of our knowledge becomes the shape of our living; the relation of the knower to the known becomes the relation of the living self to the larger world.” Palmer is saying that the way we attend to others determines the kind of person we become. If we see people generously, we will become generous, or if we view them coldly, we will become