Connection

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

What this capacity means

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.