Inside story: Kate McNally’s Thought for the week

‘In becoming vulnerable we also become real.’

by Kate McNally 26th August 2022

We are admonished to love our neighbours as ourselves. I have always understood this to mean that we should wish for them the same things we have, or wish to have: love, community, health, adventure, challenging work, abundance, and so on. This is hard, as we don’t see our neighbours as we see ourselves. We see our ‘insides’ – our thoughts, wishes, fears, insufficiencies and inadequacies – but only their ‘outsides’ – their accomplishments, the face they turn to the world.