00:00Medical studies do consistently show that a sense of community is required for proper mental health.
00:05Is there a way to engage with community that doesn't arise from loneliness?
00:09Most often the relationship comes from a point of incompleteness.
00:15You scratch my bag, I scratch your bag, that's a social contract.
00:19That's what I'm arguing against.
00:22There can be another way of relating to the other.
00:25I mean, I'm speaking to you. Why must I speak to you?
00:28For a personal gain.
00:30And if I'm speaking to you for personal gain, can I ever be truthful to you?
00:34I'm talking of relationship from that center.
00:37Why do I have to relate to exploit?
00:40And that can happen and result in a very, very beautiful relationship
00:46if you are existentially complete within.
00:51That's the center of aloneness.
00:52In fact, only from the center of aloneness, there can be beautiful relationships.
00:57Because now you are not looking to be a parasite.
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