You can only meet another at the depth to which they know themselves. What someone recognizes, embraces, or rejects in you often says more about the journey they have already taken. The layers in which we can truly see each other are limited by our own courage to look inward.
Just like flowers that open layer by layer toward the light, so too do people unfold — not all at once, but bit by bit, as they dare to look at who they truly are.
Sometimes we meet someone in their bloom, clear and radiant. But often, we meet only a shadow, a shell formed by survival, experience, and desire. And that’s okay. Because every person carries their own pace, their own rhythm of awakening and remembering.
Every encounter is a mirror. Sometimes full of recognition, sometimes full of distance. Both are valuable.
Walk where you can walk together. Let go where the paths diverge. And be gentle, with yourself and with the other.
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Wendy Leyten is an internationally acclaimed photographer known for her ability to make the unseen visible. Her images capture not just what the eye can see, but what lies hidden between the layers: silence, symbolism, and soul.
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