“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be
perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own
image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their
potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love
the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
When Frances identified Anais Ninn as the person who said "we see the world as we are, not as it is" I started looking for other quotes.
Michael Pollen writes that bio-diveristy is nature's hold on survival. Difference is how nature survives plagues, disasters.
Maybe we can extrapolate that cognitive diversity is humanity's hold on its own survival, it seems others have done so before us...
As a teacher, in the sense of Mertin and Ninn, I work hard for my students, to be a mirror rather than a projector.
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