Nature of Friendship

The joy of friendship lasts beyond just time spent with someone you love.  Intimate union of souls is an expression of love; between friends, this intimacy lies in a form of companionship; this union yields for those who truly reflect their friends love—spiritual abundance.

At times in my life, I had no friends, I was held within a desolate existence which drove my heart through the floor boards of my home, deep into the earth.  There, all love I had for myself, disintegrated into muck.  Love has no bounds, but I found a path in this world which allowed me to hide myself from all loving energy which I could possibly contain or share with others.  This dark place did bring me to higher understanding of myself as well as the purposes of union.  Without darkness there can be no light.  Solitude is a means to deep reflection of the soul.  And deep within the soul there lies an understanding of how we are to be cultivated in the pursuit to share ourselves with others.

Union, as I believe it to be, is the heart’s expression of gratitude for living in this world.  Our hearts seek out strange paths so we can come to appreciate our relationships with others; and to appreciate our relationship to ourselves—both past and present.  Lovingness is an expression of union which allows us to cohabitate with the world.  Without love, life would be devoid of anything that gives us courage or wisdom.  As we grow into ourselves, and obtain wisdom and courage, we learn to express greater gratitude for the loving energy the heart cultivates in our souls.

Being human is the knowledge that although, at times, we do not know the love in our hearts, our time of spiritual isolation shall pass. 

Union, in the form of friendship, allows us to navigate times of difficulty and of solace.  It gives us space to share our triumphs.  It allows us to be fully human in the face of an, often times, mechanistic existence.  Love is the centerpiece to intimate friendship; it is through love that people grow together, and become stronger.  Friendships inspire us to learn and reach a more bountiful existence.  Intimacy, in friendship, is the union of hearts which have love for one another.  And to those who fully appreciate their friends comes the blessing of seeing themselves as beautiful manifestations of the love they have received—and the love they have to give.

If we are to come through times where being human is confining we must learn to love the people we surround ourselves with. Our friends must be the highest of ideals we know in this world or we will hide from any love we have for ourselves.  And in turn, if we come to know that there is no greater expression of the richness of our character than the expression of our love, we will know we do not need to hide.  We will have the knowledge that we are beautiful people with abundant souls.

Nothing can shatter a person like not receiving love from the universe.  Shattered, however, we can grow in myriad directions towards the boundaries of what keeps us contained.  In our growth, we can go beyond our pain to find love, friendship, and intimacy.  All the healing in the world gets done when a person comes to sharing love with friends whom they admire as their own greatest example of goodness.