the ubiquity of the experience of loneliness

• life begins with traumatic separation ... (and) is spent trying either to recover that lost connection by some form of regressive impulse or to sublimate this deep need into a search for connection with nature, with others, with the gods ... never sustainable nor complete
• while it is true that we can't go home again, it is also true that in a universe of exiles, when people's paths intersect, the journey itself may seem like a home, with the Other present for the while
• taking responsibility for not committing a soul-crime