As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Does this feel warmer or colder?

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.