Our habit of gift giving and consumption at Christmastime could be interpreted as one massive, collective attempt to say to someone we love, “I see you and I love you”. Why do we do it this way? How could we come out of the fears and seeming limitations that keep us in patterns of isolation, superficiality and materialism? The great sage Jiddu Krishnamurti said that we discover who we really are through the all-important fact of relationship. No one evolves in isolation. He further said that seeing from the intelligence that recognizes that “the observer is the observed” releases tremendous energy for our capacity to be available in the way for which our loved ones and the society are hungering.