Community is not monolithic.

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We do not all have to be same to come together.

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What creates a community is something more than sameness.

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Something more than appearance.

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More than a common belief.

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Community is formed by shared experience.

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Or shared energy.

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True community is about sharing our vulnerable hearts with each other.

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It is about the connection we feel when we are in each other's presence.

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The support and camaraderie that comes from sharing our pain and trauma with others is palatable.

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We feel seen, heard, and acknowledged when we dive deep into our healing in a safe container.

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Perhaps we started as strangers when we started to our work with others.

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Yet by the time we have gone through some process or experience with those strangers, they become something more.

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Not just strangers who have witnessed us in our agony.

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They are now closer to us than our closest friends.

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Sometimes, even closer to us than our own family.

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Because the bond that forms when we support each other through our healing process is beyond our normal relationships.

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That shared experience connects us in ways beyond our understanding.

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Beyond the physical.

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To that ineffable place where magic occurs.

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The magic that connects all of life together into a web of moving, growing, interrelated energies.

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It cannot be described in words alone.

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The experience of the depth of connection is something that can only be experienced to be understood.

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That is why true community is beyond reason or logic.

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For community has a life of it's own.

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As each of it's members grow and change, so does the whole community.

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And we learn not only to cry together, but to laugh and sing together as well.

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Each one of these experiences builds on the prior one.

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So tighter and tighter the community becomes.

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Then our community becomes something truly beautiful to behold.

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Something that feeds our souls and nourishes our hearts.

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When that truly happens for us, we become more than we were before.

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More than individuals who are part of a community.

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We become members of a movement that can heal the world.

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Do you have a true community of like-hearted and like-spirited people?

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Can you find those whom you truly feel safe with to do your own deep inner work?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour