Need for Connection

I find connection to be a kind of doorway into the experience of another. We want to make contact with what is most real in one another. How powerful it is to experience connection with another person and how surprising it can be to experience connection within oneself. I find sometimes that when I listen careful for what is alive in me, when I make contact with that need that so wants to be seen, I experience a kind of connection within myself. Depression is often a kind of isolation from one’s own needs. We often experience the same kind of pain when we find ourselves isolated from what is alive in another person. We so want to be let in, to be invited in.