Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Able to care

What you value determines what you see. What you see is an indication of all you value.

Your values blind you to some things and sensitize you to others. Though you glimpse objective reality through your senses and thinking, there is no entirely objective perception or perspective.

You are directed by what you care about. Everything coming in, and going out, passes through the filter of what matters most to you.

You strive to be rational, and succeed to a respectable degree. But you can never be cold and uncaring enough to proceed solely on reason.

Yet by understanding and accepting who you are and what you are, great things become possible. Though you are by nature biased, that bias gives you the capacity to love, to offer kindness, to appreciate beauty and to be awed by wonder.

In many areas you’re able to reason very objectively, yet at the same time you’re able to care. Understand what a powerful combination that is, and commit each day to make use of it in the service of life’s goodness.

— Ralph Marston

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