by Kim Ort | May 10, 2017 | Belonging / Connection, Compassion, Contemplation, Seeing
Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” I learned about the origin of this word in this Brain Pickings article. To summarize, the word empathy came into being in the late 1860’s when philosopher Theodor Lipps...
by Kim Ort | Mar 29, 2017 | Inspiration, People, Photography, Topics
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Thomas Berry who said “The universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.” Recently, while listening to an On Being interview with scientist and philosopher Carlo Rovelli, he said this,...
by Kim Ort | Mar 15, 2017 | Books, Contemplation, Topics
“To take vision for granted, to be thoughtless about the variety, miracle, and magic of seeing is to limit one’s self to a play-by-play objectification of reality. But to envision the act of seeing as the marriage between the viewer and viewed is to be...
