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“If we give as much as we expect to take from a novel, a poem, an image or an album (or a conversation, or a relationship), it has a greater chance of becoming profound. As readers, we feel this happen when something speaks directly to our experience and we feel the words burning themselves into us...You may forget the exact words, but you carry a relationship with the text through your life. You may think this was entirely because of the quality of the text, but it was also about the quality of your reading.”

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Book:On Connection

Source: On Connection

“We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt physiological and emotional empathy.”

Book:On Connection

Source: On Connection

“Words on a page are incomplete. The poem, the novel or the non-fiction pamphlet are finished when they are taken up and engaged with. Connection is collaborative. For words to have meaning, they have to be read.”

Writing Reading Books Empathy Words Connection

Book:On Connection

Source: On Connection

“It's so much easier to know what's best than to do what's best. - Choices”

Best Intentions

Book:Divisible by Itself and One

Source: Divisible by Itself and One