The Value of Respect and Empathy

Knowing yourself is the first step towards being able to imagine the situation of others. It took me forty five years to realize the connection between the person some of the attributes I have as a human being and something that happened long ago. Life's lived forward and understood backwards which is an interesting thing to sometimes it can take many years to understand. We don't live in a culture where we nail ourselves entirely to our own culture, he says.