"We who are left, how shall we look again ...."

We who are left, how shall we look again

Happily on the sun or feel the rain

Without remembering how they who went

Ungrudgingly and spent

Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain.

A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings –

But we, how shall we turn to little things

And listen to birds and winds and streams

Made holy by their dreams,

Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

Wilfrid Gibson

"To understand what another person is saying ...."

“To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.”

"It isn't what people think that is important ...."

“It isn’t what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.”

"Have an untrapped mind ...."

“Have an untrapped mind – free from preconceptions, self-centredness and ulterior motives.”

"Be aware of your own weakness ...."

“Be aware of your own weaknesses but never belittle the strength of others.”