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“start the conversation by quoting from Zen teacher and friend Norman Fischer. He says emptiness is not the emptiness of despair. It is the emptiness of all limitation and boundary. It is open, released. That “when there’s openness, no boundary between myself and others—when it turns out that I literally am others and others are literally me—then love and connection is easy and natural.”4 Ram Dass says, “Norman is right. Although some moments of union come spontaneously, we can intentionally transform our separateness and invite the experience of interconnection by practicing compassion and love. The more we live in the soul, the more we see love everywhere we look. I have begun to love beings because they just are. I am literally in love with everyone I look at. When you and I rest together in gentle, spacious loving awareness, we swim together in the ocean of love. It’s always right here. There is no separateness, and there is no fear.”
― Mirabai Bush, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying