Wisdom for Personal Reflection

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It is easy to eat without tasting, miss the fragrance of the moist earth after a rain, even touch others without knowing the feelings we are transmitting. In fact, we refer to all these ever-so-common instances of missing what is here to be sensed, whether they involve our eyes, our ears, or our other senses, as examples of “being out of touch.”
We use touch as a metaphor for relating through all the senses because, in fact, we are literally touched by the world through all our senses, through our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and also through our mind.
For all that, we tend to be specialists at being out of touch a great deal of the time, and out of touch with just how out of touch we can be.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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