Soul Loneliness: Meet me in the Deep

Our world is suffocating from loneliness.

And it's not from a lack of people. And certainly not from a lack of noise.

It's the ache of a thousand ships sailing over our surface without one single inquiry to what lies beneath. Something deep within screams in agony to simply be wondered about.

Maybe this is the real fatigue of being with people?

What if it's far less about the people and far more about the pain of being known about but never being actually known?

To know. A theme in scripture.

The fracture, the void of this loneliness is infinitely deep.

We are alone in our depths.

Our depths—they are profound.

Yet, just like the oceans of the earth, the vast majority have never been explored. Never been seen by human eyes. The depth both exists and yet, in one sense doesn't, because it has never been known. 

There's an odd phenomena as a human. If you never encountered a mirror, as far as your eyes are concerned, you don't have a head. You imagine you have one because you can feel it. Others can see your face, but you never can. Even with a mirror, in your entire life you can never look at your face, only at a reflection.

This is the exact metaphor of what it means to have someone see us at our depths. To be seen for our creativity, our beauty, our deepest desires... and our most devastating pain... to be seen is not only to be known by the "other," but it is even more profoundly the sacred journey of coming to know ourselves.

And in the absence of the wise witness, we ache and long for a "being known" that is the tremor in our soul.

When will the soul companion rise, and journey into our depths?

Perhaps our greatest fear is that we will die before we are ever fully known.

And in my journey to create a world with the wisdom and the perception to journey with wildness and compassion into the depths...

Let me ask you two questions:

What is your deepest desire? The thing that feels wild, impossible, perhaps even rebellious? What did you come to this earth to birth into being?

And what is your greatest fear? Go deep.