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Reprinted from "Purple America," the Fall 2008 YES! Magazine
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Learning to be Human
If the properly functioning human brain is wired for caring, cooperation, and service, how do we account for the outrageous greed and violence that threaten our collective survival? Here we encounter our distinctive human
By Marilyn Hay
How much do we miss in non-verbal communication just in passing? Do we respond to what other people are telling us about themselves unconsciously, simply responding to their words? Or do we check what they’re saying against the non-verbal cues they are unconsciously projecting? I call these unconscious messages ‘heartsongs’.I
wonder if we so often don’t pay attention to, or address, heartsongs
because we feel we’d somehow be intruding in another’s privacy, or
that ‘it’s none of our business.’ Or perhaps we think we’re too busy to
get into something that doesn’t really pertain directly to us. But …
we are all part of this great community of life, not separate and
apart, isolated from one another, unless we choose to be. There is