Engaging/Connecting

Our words, our deeds, our very presence in the world, create and leave impressions in the minds of others just as a writer makes impressions with his pen on paper, the painter with his brush on canvas, the potter with his fingers in clay. The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we simultaneously play our part while listening to the composition of others. Our life is a story being continuously related to others through every detail of our being: facial expressions, body language, clothes, inflections of speech---whether we like it or not. We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.

Stephen Batchelor