Does the ocean separate these tiny islands, or does it connect them? There is no music without silence, no words without the white space between them, no relationship without the separation between us. The very atoms that make up the universe are more space than matter.
What open space will you reach into or across today?
Do you ever feel like your life is going around and around on the same track, constantly moving, but taking you nowhere new? And yet, the repetitive carousel ride is one of the great joys of childhood. Perhaps what is most wonderful about riding a carousel is not the circular motion, but the opportunity to wave at the loved one who, again and again, disappears and comes into view.
Who or what has put in a welcome reappearance in your life lately?
“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”
―Tony Kushner
To what “ nets of souls” do you belong?
Many times, what we experience in life is less a sense of belonging than a sense of “be-longing.” We long for that one person, that true home, that genuine community, where we will be completely known, completely accepted, completely at one with those around us. But once we leave the womb there is no way to escape the longing for perfect union, which we can experience only in fleeting moments before the reality of living as an individual amongst other individuals, each with our own needs and perspectives, takes over.
When have you experienced a sense of perfect communion?
Each bush and trees stands just a bit apart from the others, claiming its own space, its own right to the sun. But underground all the roots intertwine, and every plant walks the earth’s dark corridors with its fingers interlaced with those of another.
In what invisible ways are you connected with those around you?
