Opening the Heart by Sharon Salzberg A capacity for friendship and kindness exists within each of us, without exception. No matter what pain we might have gone through in our lives, that capacity is never destroyed. It may be – and often is – obscured, but it’s there. The key to uncovering this potential is paying attention in a positive way. So often we don’t have the time or the patience to take an interest in people; instead we look around them or right through them. Being attentive to someone opens the door to discovering who she or he actually is. Like Rachel, we find that the people we relate to at work, at school, while doing errands no longer seem so much like strangers. Something happens to our world, and we don’t feel so alone. goo.gl/v9YiIR Illustration by Owen Davey
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:03:11 +0000