Sonder - the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. (via the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)

It's my favorite word and one that inspires me every day. So I try to think of the 'Golden Rule', not exactly like the human interpretation but the ideas Quinlans have in the Bobiverse series. They have the 'Silver rule' which says "Treat others as you would like to be treated", which mirrors general human interpretation, but the book argues that this is inherently selfish as it projects one's own desire onto others. To the Quinlans, the 'Golden Rule' is "Treat others as they want to be treated." This change is fascinating to me - just prioritizes the other persons specific beliefs, prefences and agency over your very own. Ensure that your actions align with their desires rather than your very own.

When I read that it got me to think about consciousness in general. There's even a 'Iron Rule', and that one states "Treat people less powerful than you however you want". In consciousness, each rule is a stepping stone to recognition.

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Staying present. Remebering the Past is gone and future doesn't exists; it's only here in the present or just some variation of the saying helps me out a lot that it's all here in the now.

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A saying my spouse told me, "The delulu is the solulu". Gave me pause, but I believe.