Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Cori Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about a different way that you can view other people and how

it might make you appreciate them more.

More to come on that in a moment. First let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Today is that Today's episode is inspired by a quote from the psychologist Carl Rogers. He writes,

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be.

When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying soften the orange a bit on the right-hand

corner. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

I'm going to read this again, and now that you've heard it once and have an idea of what it's pointing to,

see if you can just let go and feel the words and the intention behind them.

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be.

When I look at a sunset I don't find myself saying soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

I think the reason I like this is because I can totally feel the contrast between how I might view something like a sunset and how I might view another person, especially a person that I'm close to, like a family member, feels very easy and I know it as a pattern to get caught in, why don't you just try to soften the orange on the right-hand corner of your being. But with a sunset or a sunrise or a moonrise or a

moon set, there's not that sort of judgment. There's just witnessing, experiencing, and allowing a sense of awe to arise.

Of course, we have less complicated relationships to the sun and the moon than we might other people.

And there aren't personality dynamics and well thousands and thousands of years of evolution that inform how we relate to other

human beings.

But still there was something about this quote by Carl Rogers that felt inspiring.

And I think it might be something that you can bring into your interactions with people.

You might start by doing this from afar, sitting on a park bench, or these days sitting in a

Zoom room, and just noticing people without necessarily being too close and observing them as if you were observing a sunset,

not trying to soften the edges, or notice if you do try to soften their edges or

change something and just drop back into this space of experiencing them

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