Katherine writes the blog Lessons from the Monk I Married and invited me to guest post! What an honor… I didn’t really want to write a “lesson” but more of an un-lesson, a questioning… So it ended up being titled “We’re all connected (but who am “I”?)” An excerpt is below, visit her site for the full post.
Taking inspiration from Katherine’s last post and a host of signs pointing me in this direction, I would like to discuss how technology has been influencing the way I see and interact with the world. I’ll start with the example of how I ended up on this site: I got a Google Alert that she had posted on the book Midnights with the Mystic. I commented and re-tweeted. Then she visited my blog, invited me to guest post.
Despite not knowing each other, I do feel a connection. When I read her response, I became so thrilled, started clapping, laughing, dancing. My husband looked at me as if I’d gone mad. Just reading her words had elicited powerful emotions in me.
It turns out, a lot of dialogue nowadays is happening around the very real connections people are experiencing through virtual means. The internet and social media research is just reminding us of things we already knew: that we are affected by others, and vice versa. That being involved with others, helping others, feels good because they are a part of us.
“How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is.”–Sadhguru
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