@classically.musically: Your relationship with desire, thoughts, and memories often leads to deep scarcity and sadness because the foundations of these desires and memories are nonexistent. They are based on false notions of your true self, stemming from your ego and the need for self-comfort. A remarkable experience occurs when you free yourself from all forms of relationships and simply learn to relate. Your connections should come from a place of awareness, deep intuition, and a profound understanding of life. In reality, whatever connections you have are already united; you are inherently one. You were never two. Recognizing this duality is part of the realization that there is only one—the concept of Anatta.