Sublime

“The main things are to commit to some simple behaviors—meditating, exercising, getting enough sleep—and to practice altruism.… And nurture your social connections.”

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

He knew that he had to be connected somewhere, grounded somewhere, since everything in his life had disappeared. All

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.