Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God, each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays one to one another. The closer we live to God, the closer we are bound to our neighbor; the farther we are from God, the farther we are from one another. The more each ray departs from its center, the weaker it becomes, and the closer it gets to the center, the stronger it becomes.