Connection

Connection is the capacity to establish, experience, sustain and repair meaningful contact.

It can include connection with another person, a community, the body, the natural world, an idea, a place or oneself.

Connection does not require constant closeness.

A relationship can survive distance. A person can spend time alone and remain deeply connected.

What matters is the felt possibility of contact.

Connection becomes particularly powerful when it includes differentiation.

I can belong here without becoming identical to everyone here.

I can love you without having to stop being myself.