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When boundaries open and close fluidly, empathy becomes luminous. The mirror between us allows light to travel in both directions without distortion.

Because this phenomenon can’t be observed, tested, or measured, it's shunned by science. Yet significant anecdotal evidence supports it as real.

Many of us learn empathy as outward action: Do for others, feel for others, give until emptied. Yet empathy begins long before action. It begins at a point of interior stillness,  the space where perception listens inwardly enough to discern truth from performance.

If we want to change what we see, we don’t start by changing the world. Instead we change our lens.

One of the most profound influences on our vitality and longevity is an organ few of us consider an organ

Is there a reason we repeat learnings? And do we need to shame ourselves when it happens? Children don't. Toddlers ask “why?” 300 times a day, get the answer, forget it, ask again tomorrow.

Questioning anything: decisions, patterns, intentions, and experiences with the sincerity and intensity of a child sets us on a path of learning that can otherwise get obscured in the busyness of living.

This rise of human hubris is the first indication that a transformation is incoming and the restoration of balance is sure to follow.