a half dozen different worlds

Trying to figure out how to live with another person in a new normal of covid ramifications has been a stretch for me. This was a good reminder.

I hope you are exploring some of your own internal worlds more quietly today--Happy Sunday! 

“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. [...] 

Human beings are immensely complicated creatures, living simultaneously in a half dozen different worlds. Each individual is unique and, in a number of respects, unlike all the other members of the species. None of our motives is unmixed, none of our actions can be traced back to a single source and, in any group we care to study, behavior patterns that are observably similar may be the result of many constellations of dissimilar causes.”

Aldous Huxley on Making Sense of Ourselves and Each Other via {brain pickings}