We Are All Connected
Articles on the art of communication, the art of appreciation, and the art of forgiveness.
If this is a world of isolated objects banging around and into each other, with little or no appreciation of the underlying unity, what else is there but "number one?" I am the only one I have to be concerned with. Why? Because if, in my experience, I rarely if ever feel a meaningful connection with anyone else, a connection that takes me beyond who and what I am into the experiential world of another, then, psychologically, as well as for all practical purposes, no one else exists but me.
If we assume we are irremediably distant from one another, eternally alone in the cosmos, than wholeness can only have to do with what goes on in each solitary individual. I can only be whole within myself. And that takes us right back to the "number one" stance.
. . . However, as a species, we have had to evolve to a point where we could not only recognize the possibility [of the wholeness of all beings] intellectually, but feel that connection in the very daily and mundane moments of our lives.
Love, which is about connectedness, has been pushing to the surface, slowly transforming our capacity to see — so that we can see that the love we so dearly desire is, indeed, available.
By Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D. The New Intimacy Newsletter, reprinted with permission |
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