Do you know that you’re never alone? Even when you sit with no one around you, seemingly alone, you are not. You are accompanied by the numerous voices and hearts of those you have sat with over many years. Every one is an influence. Every one has place in your life. Touching you in ways of which you have been unaware. And you are a small piece, a nuance, in each of their lives.

You are comforted by the warmth and care that some bring to you. You don’t see it, but you are so visible. So cared about. So filled by love that goes out to you.

And, you are troubled by the jealousy, the hurt and the pain that pokes you in equal measure. It’s not that anyone intends to hurt you, but their own self-loathing is a cloak they have not been able to cast off. They can only bear it by drawing you into it as well.

Others pass by you with the smallest, the simplest, of words, touch and connection. They sometimes go the deepest and open the purest veins of light within you. They enliven you. They touch your life with wholeness and sincerity.

No, you’re never alone. When you are tempted to think that, just remember these words. You are never alone.