Human beings need recognition as much as they need food and water. No crueler punishment can be devised that to not see someone, to render them unimportant or invisible. "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them," George Bernard Shaw wrote, "but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." To do that is to say: You don't matter. You don't exist.
-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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