Amanda Palmer Quotes
At The Same Yoga Retreat, We Stood And Faced Each Other In Pairs, Really Looking At Each Other From A Close Distance. We Were Told To Simply BE With The Other Person, Maintaining Eye Contact, With No Social Gestures Like Laughing, Smiling, Or Winking To Put Ourselves At Ease.
Grown Women And Men Cried. Really And Truly Sobbed.
When We Were Finished With The Exercise, We Talked About How It Had Felt. The Thread Echoed Again And Again: Many People Had Never Felt So *seen* By Another Person. Seen Without Walls, Without Judgment ... Just Seen, Acknowledged, Accepted. The Experience Was
For So Many Painfully Rare.
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