The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.
Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
