To Touch

In the courtesy of beholding, and with a certain kind of respectful distance, we can come to know that everything and everyone has a vast solitude within.

Quite often we do not want to feel this essential aloneness. It is fearful. We want to touch and be touched. We want to be verified. So we grab what we think we need and are assuaged for a brief time...

..M E D I T A T I O N

When our hand rests gently
on the hand of another,
when it lifts a cup,
when it opens a door,
could we feel that there are worlds beyond the seeming...


Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris