loving attention
This is Ram Dass's expression for how he aspires always to come to the world. Tara Brach uses the phrase "loving awareness" in Trusting the Gold. This is my intention too.
prosopagnosia
Oliver Sacks, the wonderful author of the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, the book they based the Robin Williams/Robert De Niro film on, also suffered from this condition. Not being able to recognize faces.
Sacks noted in a 2001 interview that severe shyness, which he described as "a disease", had been a lifelong impediment to his personal interactions. He believed his shyness stemmed from his prosopagnosia, popularly known as "face blindness", a condition that he studied in some of his patients, including the titular man from his work The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. This neurological disability of his, whose severity and whose impact on his life Sacks did not fully grasp until he reached middle age, even sometimes prevented him from recognising his own reflection in mirrors. (Wikipedia)
