Have I mis-spoken? --- Nor do I believe that recognising the quality of others diminishes us! I hope I did not suggest that we HAVE to diminish ourselves. I only wanted to point out the existence of an inverse dynamic, where the opposite of raising up is to lower down. This complementarity is expressed in body language as well as through many linguistic expressions across languages. I am certainly not prescribing that one should diminish oneself just noting that this dynamic exists and explaining it through embodiment theory.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu