Every word you’ve written here lands for me. In the foreword of one of my favorite books, Know Yourself: An Explanation of the Oneness of Being, is this idea: “the movement of existence is the movement of love for the sake of the revelation of beauty.” As I think about it today after reading your words, I’m reminded that awareness and attention are at the heart of it all. Love is the recognition of our shared being, the merging you write about. Devotion. Worship. Thank you for the reminder; I needed it today.