We Have Mastered Solitary Consciousness

We have mastered solitary consciousness: the consciousness developed sitting in a cave or on
a cushion.

We have not even begun to master reciprocal consciousness: the fundamental willingness
to be changed by each other as we interact moment to moment.

We may pay lip service to the fallacy of independence and our desire for intimacy, but how often do we truly embody our inexorable interconnectedness?