Capacity

One of the most important things I learned from WC was about capacity. As early as my second or third visit to his office, he stood up from his chair to illustrate something for me on his whiteboard. He drew a cylinder, and he drew a line demonstrating the level of its contents part-way up, perhaps 60% full. He pointed to the space above the level, and identified that space as ones capacity. This is the space that when you keep open it becomes available to others, into which you may invite others to share in the richness and love that you have to offer. He drew another line, right at the top of the cylinder. When you are up here, he said, you have no capacity for others, you are completely full of yourself.
When you are full, not only are you not open and available to others, but when you interact with them, it tends to be clumsy, aggressive and obtuse. And you are so top-heavy that you are liable to fall over and find yourself horizontal and butting heads. Reorient yourself, with your feet firmly planted on the ground, with a solid and stable foundation, and with your head pointed to the heavens, and you will be much better equipped for the inclement weather life is sure to send your way.