From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.

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No matter how close we get there is no touching anyone. We reach to the singularity of connection and we find infinity there. We gaze through a fog of story and emotion, we reach and yearn for connection and never seem to break through the narrative we are telling ourselves about the person for whom we reach. No wonder this time of year, when we are supposed to feel the most love, many people feel the saddest.

This inability to connect happens when we see those around us through the lens of our own ego, our own story. This inability to connect happens when we are looking for something separate from ourselves, and never see that we are all the same substance, connected at the base of it all. We reach and yearn and strive for intimacy when we are not separate. Underneath every person is this infinite plain of unknowable energy. Infinite consciousness. Infinite love.