Look Outside

Anyone who looks only at themselves will inevitably sink into melancholy.  Open your eyes to creation all around you, and the shadows already begin to disperse.

Br. Roger of Taize

Heart

“[The heart is] the place where intellect and emotion and spirit will converge in the human self.”

• • • • Parker Palmer

Empathy

I experience an accurate, empathic understanding of the person’s world as my own, but without ever losing the “as if” quality. This is empathy. To understand the person’s feelings, never in doubt about what the person means; my remarks fit in just right with the person’s mood and content, and my tone of voice conveys the complete ability to share the person’s feelings.

Carl Rogers

Poetry

“… poetry is the means by which the feelings and the imagination are educated and their powers developed.”

Bede Griffiths