We wonder why we’re alone, when it’s each of us who make the choice to be alone. When we choose to walk in separate skins, we are alone.

It’s true that there is a meaning in our lives here, and that the love which resides within each of us seems to have a need for us. It’s through its reaction with each of us that Self realizes Itself, and it’s through our reaction with It that we gain our greater awareness.

Our greater awareness is this: that we’re all one. And yet, our separate skins are a signification that we see ourselves apart.

Love is imprisoned within us. And so, it’s to our mutual benefit that we join with It, to release It, and so to release ourselves.

© 2022 by Michael C. Just

Mike’s novel, The Dirt: The Journey of a Mystic Cowboy, is available in softcover or eBook formats through Amazon.

You can purchase the book through this website. Or go straight to amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+dirt+journey+of+a+mystic+cowboy&crid=1S40Q4BXSUWJ6&sprefix=the+dirt%3A+journey+of+a+m%2Caps%2C180&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_23

Mike’s other titles, including The Crippy, The Mind Altar, and Canyon Calls, are available through this website or through Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002

Four of his short stories have recently been published online:

Lies, Ltd. has been published by The Mystery Tribune @ Lies, Ltd.: Literary Short Fiction by Michael C. Just (mysterytribune.com)

The Obligate Carnivore has been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review @ Category: MICHAEL JUST – SCARLET LEAF REVIEW

I See You, Too has been published by the 96th of October @ I See You, Too – 96th of October

Offload, a short story about a man who can heal any disease, is now live and can be read at The Worlds Within at Offload – The Worlds Within