Skaill – Orkney

Between you and me, there is a gap; this is the abyss. The space, the depths, separates me from you and you from me and is the origin of our fears. For to walk into the abyss is to have the courage to overcome that which seems to keep us whole.
Separation does not exist as a line. Lines are boundaries, but a line being a non-material thing can not cause separation. Emptiness does. Thus, the unknowable emptiness that stands between you and me is our common ground. To reach it, we ought to live the place where we both stand; if not, it is still either mine or yours, either here or there, and not everywhere or anywhere. It means living all I know and all you know and finding a we-know place. (You know that place, I know that place, we both stood there once, and it was immense, unlimited, timeless and omni-existent).
Isn’t the unknowable what we pursue? Isn’t the unknowable our last and most inevitable destination?

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