This professor had a student whose baby-sitter failed at the last moment. Not knowing what to do, the student brought her child to class and hoped for the best. As you can see, the professor picked up the child and carried her through most of the lesson. This is what people do for one another when they’re not constrained by blind rules.

The beautiful moments of life arise when we see one another directly, not as players of roles or fillers of positions. Our actions create beauty and life when we see direct causes and effects, not actions punishable or unpunishable by blind rules and blind enforcement.

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Before you go back to the mundane, please consider how seeing one another directly has contributed to the euphoric, life-confirming moments of your life. And after sitting with those remembrances for a few minutes, see where they lead you.