I opened my palms toward her. I began to receive the warm, healing light flowing from the source of life. The light was faint at first, but gradually, rhythmically, like the beat of the universe, it spread thickly. The pure warmth that began in the center of my body, in the seat of my soul, permeated my fingertips and into the cosmic current. In that moment, I realized she and I were not separate entities, but were coexisting in a single, warm, and complete wave.