And since we are all part of the earth, not separate at all, I resolve to heal myself and others -- to love more deeply, know more truthfully, and touch more kindly.
But, for the most part, we "can understand specific techniques by practicing them, discover new areas of interest or skill, and more deeply know our own habits, individual voices, and styles by engaging with the works of other[s]." So writers tend to read selfishly, often in the manner that Francine Prose suggests in Reading Like a Writer, noticing how sentences and paragraphs are formed.
I knew, not in the beginning, but later as I looked into the question more deeply, I knew that yes, we had corruption in the Afghan government system, in the delivery of services.
The more deeply you know people, the more likely they will think of you when the right information or job comes along.
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
You are already involved in this more deeply than you know.
In modern therapeutic terms, he needs to understand his own emotions more deeply, get to know himself, take exercise to release endorphins, abandon the protective persona ("beneath me") he has adopted and forgive himself for what he is and has been.
Because when we're fiercely committed to living our highest truth with a profound connection to the divine... to loving and being loved by others more deeply than we knew was possible... to immersing ourselves in the work we're called to do with our whole heart and soul... we're never done.
It also allows us to know and understand others more deeply than we can know strangers: Research suggests that our friends bring out the best in us when it comes to empathic accuracy, or the ability to know and understand another person's thoughts and feelings.
This is a time of life when an aging parent may begin to soften, to let down her guard and let herself be known more deeply than ever before.
More deeply than if I knew them in the flesh, perhaps.
