touch and be touched

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
— Henri Nouwen

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Ingrid Bergman

I think I now know what this goal is about. It is about communication. communion. It is about sharing the unspeakable using the only language that makes any sense. It is about a deep-seated vibe of knowing. It is a dance. It is a massage. It is a long molten soul hug. It is me sharing me with you. Divine.

I don’t know what this one is about. I don’t consider myself a very touchy person. I wasn’t raised that way. But I enjoy touching and being touched. People enjoy my touch. I am a massage practitioner (but not practicing any longer). So what’s the deal?