“You don’t have to be scared, you can love a stranger. We are all together; it is just a story that we are all these little individuals. We are one organism.”

Eric Likhtiger. New York. Giving free hugs at Union Square.

Lightsource Temple, Lightsourceuniversity.org. October 2017. By Lilli Grothe.

“Free Hugs have been an ongoing campaign by a non-profit group for now 8 years. Every time we go out there we just see people light up with joy. Especially in urban environments, people just can’t help being disconnected. With all these people rolling by each other without any interaction, here we are bringing people together for a deeper interaction they wouldn’t normally have and embracing a stranger. - You don’t have to be scared, you can love a stranger. We are all together; it is just a story that we are all these little individuals. We are one organism.”