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Every meaningful conversation is made up of countless small choices. There are fleeting moments when the right question, or a vulnerable admission, or an empathetic word can completely change a dialogue. A silent laugh, a barely audible sigh, a friendly smile during a tense moment. […] The right conversation, at the right moment, can change everything. — Charles Duhigg. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. Charles may be speaking of conversations here, but I believe this is true for just about any kind of interaction we have with the world around us....

When we listen to someone, we already have ideas about what is being said. We tend to bring up and compare what we already know with what we are hearing. If the two things are the same, we say, “Oh, that’s right.” We accept it. When we compare and we see that what’s being said isn’t the same as what we’ve already learned, we say, “Oh, that’s wrong; I can’t accept that....

اني احس كل الناس يحبوني، لانه اني احب كل الناس I feel loved by everyone, because I love everyone — Hussein Al-Khafaji I was a 13-year-old kid in 8th grade. He taught older kids physics in 11th and 12 grade, but he came to our classroom to fill in for an absent teacher. He radiated kindness and love that I hadn’t seen before. His words and presence remain etched in my mind with pristine clarity, even after all these years....