The problem is
We haven´t been taught to feel that way.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense
have not taught us to be identical with the Universe – but only
parts of it, only in it, only confronting it.
– Allan Watts
This is not some kind of far-fetched and unsubstantiated
statement for the deluded, IT IS FACT:
You cannot define yourself in the absence of another.
We all need to appropriate the evident meaning of this
namely that NOTHING IS SEPARATED.
It means PRACTICALLY that Life is Togetherness.
WE ARE EACH OTHER´S MIRROR.
You and me are not just random parts in a lifeless Universe
confronting and struggling each other for supremacy, we are
identical, sharing the same grand adventure:
L I F E