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Your mind creates a world, with beauty and ugliness, excitement, tedium, friends, and enemies, and you live within that construction. People don’t see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
If you want to understand humanity, you have to focus on the thoughts and emotions of individuals,…
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David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.”
Haruki Murakami • Men Without Women: Stories
even in cases where we’re devoted to a person, and know a lot about them, it’s still possible to not see them. You can be loved by a person yet not be known by them.