The Unknown Space Between

From the moment we are born, we are in relationship.  First with our biological parents, sometimes siblings.  Extended family and neighborhood friends.  We go to school and meet more people.  We have a relationship with every thing because we are in the universe.  Sometimes were are conscious, most of the time we are unaware of all that is going on within ourselves and outside ourselves.

I've been doing a lot of reading this year to that end.   Every once in a while I come across a paragraph in my reading which resonates in a way nothing else can. 

The distance from your pain, your grief, your unattended wounds, is the distance from your partner.  And the distance from your partner is your distance from the living truth, your own great nature.  Whatever maintains that distance, that separation from ourselves and our beloveds, must be investigated with mercy and awareness.  This distance is not overcome by one "giving up the space" to another, but by both partners entering together the unknown between them.  The mind creates the abyss but the heart crosses it.

Embracing The Beloved by Stephen and Ondrea Levine.