by bruce | Nov 1, 2023 | quotes
Empathy is connecting with people so we know we’re not alone when we’re in struggle. Empathy is a way to connect to the emotion another person is experiencing; it doesn’t require that we have experienced the same situation they are going...
by bruce | Oct 23, 2023 | quotes
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. “Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and...
by bruce | Oct 18, 2023 | quotes
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other… All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes: when two people both give themselves up in order...
by bruce | Oct 15, 2023 | quotes
“Something is lacking in us, and we have an inner hunger that drives us on, an urge to come closer to other people, to overcome our inner emptiness, and to find our place in the scheme of things.It is only when we stop trying to use the world to fill this hunger...
by bruce | Oct 14, 2023 | quotes
“Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when...
