The Illusion of Separateness

I wonder if you remember the story of the first astronauts who went into space to see the stars but were most deeply impacted by seeing the earth. It was, however, what they didn’t see that was even more surprising to them. No matter how hard they looked they were unable to see national, ethnic, racial, socio-economic, or religious boundaries. All they could see a single undivided earth. Fundamentally, we are one. We have always been one. And we will always be one. But despite the fact that we seem to all be born within a state of undifferentiated oneness,...