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You are a different character in the mind of each person who knows you, because their impression of you is made of the bare bones of what they’ve seen, fleshed out by their knowledge of themselves.
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LOVING COMMUNICATION To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen. That person may be our partner, our friend, our sibling, or our child. You can ask, “Dear one, do you think that I understand you enough? Please tell me your difficulties, your suffering, and your deepest wishes.” Then the other person has an opportunity to open their heart.
How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh and Jason DeAntonis
Keith Johnstone, in his classic work on improvisation in theater,15 offers actors a simple principle: to improvise a scene, the only thing you really need to know is what status to play. This principle requires surprisingly few modifications when it comes to real life. At the heart of this book is the idea that only a few variables need to be managed to control a stream of decision-making. We’ll encounter some of the most common variables later in this chapter.
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