10/18/2025
Touch bleeds the heart of its pressure.
There are many reasons why we want to be touched. The simplest and most profound is that touch heals us. The way a drop of water spreads when touched, the pains of living that we carry spread when we are held and comforted. The buildup of bearing things alone is released for being touched with sincerity and love.
Beneath all language, touch is the common gesture, the energy that connects all that lives inside us with all that lives outside us. We can disagree โ be Catholic or Muslim or Jewish, be conservative or liberal, corporate or rural โ and all the stern walls created by what we think will crumble for the gentle reach of a compassionate hand.
๐คฒ๐ป Mark Nepo: the Book of Awakening