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Originally Posted by Silver
Maybe we are all helplessly a part of something always greater than one individual but we don't always 'feel' it? I was going to start a new thread because even though it's been six and a half years since my only son passed away, I think about him often and last night, I wondered why is it that I can go to a cemetery and look over the endless people who have come and gone, and yet my son is far more important than ANYbody else in the whole wide world? This morning at the restaurant, I watched as a family ordered their food and couldn't help but wonder about all these individuals and yet we maintain this separate idea of 'us' in the universe.
It's just those niggling existential questions that pop up in our heads that keeps us from 'feeling' that unity that really is undeniable - yet we cling to our individuality...maybe.
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My latest and best approach to the issue of my identity as a separate person/individual or self-entity is to ask my self: who feels such and such? Who is hurting, regretting, grieving, missing, feels or doesn't feel, etc. and sometimes I get back to the Real where there is no separate person or any unhappy issues. I would explain the "Real" but that's a close as I can come for now to describe my experience of it/me. I unwittingly cling to my "individuality" but am getting closer and closer to accepting and living in Unity where my "individuality" is kind of a distant dream. It changes all the time so this is all I can say about my experience for now. Thanks for your post, jim
