Once upon a time a guy  asked a girl, "Will you marry me?"

The girl said,  "No!"

And the girl lived happily ever after and...

From The Daily Om.

Our perception of humanity as a whole is, to a large extent, dualistic.

We paint people with a broad brush: some are like us, sharing our opinions and our attitudes, while others are different.

Susan notes: this useful re-centering practice is from Fitting in Is Overrated, a wonderful book by Leonard Felder (a psychologist, counselor, author and occasional contributor to my favourite publication Ode Magazine). I blogged about the book here.

When I imagine I'm a grain of sand, it's a pink one under this stunning blue sky...