Someone walks around the corner. You not only look to identify the person, you take their emotional temperature by observing their nonverbal communication–the way they hold their head, the look in their eyes, their posture. If someone is full of themselves, we can see it. When I walk around the corner, people see if I’m so full of myself, I don’t have space to love them too. Our strengths become our weaknesses when we let them fill us with the kind of pride that says, “I’m better than you.” We fill up like yeast bread and have no space for love and empathy. We feel full and not vulnerable all puffed up without realizing that it is our empathy and love that matter.
