You Are Not Alone: Finding Connection in Times of Solitude
Dear friend,
When Chiara was getting ready for her latest work trip, I had this lump in my throat and I didn’t want to be alone. Ash and Ayşe stayed over on their way to America to visit Ash’s family, so I had company. And then Bessie came to stay for a few days, with her great, powerful canine heart pumping out a loving vibration.
When it came time to drop Bessie off, I worried I’d feel alone again. But that worry didn’t turn into reality.
I feel so much love for life that I’m realising I can never truly be alone. I miss Chiara, but I feel connected to her wherever she is. I feel that way with you too — even if you're a person I’ve never seen or met, or a friend who lives in my heart even if we don’t see each other very often.
I’m realising more and more that we are truly one consciousness, looking at one another from different centres of being.
I once heard Joseph Campbell describe it using a sphere. If you take a basketball, for example, and spin it on your finger, then any point on the surface of the ball can serve as a centre. In a similar way, we are all at the centre of the universe. You are, wherever you are. And so am I. And so are all beings.
It’s not so far off in the future that all humans will feel this. Maybe it’s a couple of hundred years. Maybe a couple of thousand. On an evolutionary scale, it’s the blink of a cosmic eye.
The upheaval we’re witnessing is painful and frightening — and it will pass.
Keep centring yourself in love, forgiveness, and kindness. It’s so powerful. It’s hard to imagine how our daily commitment to humane values can make a difference — but it does.
The people who have lost sight of their human centre will regain it. Sometime. Somehow.
You are not alone.
Till tomorrow
Love,
Mikey