Sublime

This makes you independent. You are now able to come close to the Other, not out of need or with the wearying apparatus of projection, but out of genuine intimacy, affinity and belonging. It is a freedom.

The clearer you are about who you are as a system, the stronger will be your ability to self-organize during times of instability. You will attract to you the support you need to maintain your functions.

When we bring awareness to the way that any form of sexual relation motivated by craving cannot dissipate the feelings of loneliness or longing that we are trying to satisfy but actually creates more suffering, frustration, and isolation, we become determined not to engage in sexual relations without mutual understanding, love, and commitment.

Wisdom traditions from around the world speak to this from a deeper level: at heart, we are all profoundly interconnected and part of a whole, but it’s a truth we have forgotten.

what joins heaven and earth together.

Feeling unseen and uncared for probably reflects a yearning for belonging. A sense of emptiness or feeling stuck suggests a lack of self-directed meaning.

We now know belonging is a dynamic process, requiring alternating periods of togetherness and aloneness to remain vital.