Integrating change into one’s composite of self-definition.
Adapting to the changes within and the new categories of experience that result.
How judgment—and detachment from it—affects your experience of reality.
| p256 | You will travel, surrounded by abundant companionship, and experience the most profound levels of loneliness and separation. And in the next breath, you will know yourself to be utterly and blessedly alone—and taste the exultation in the experience of that realization. Ultimately, you will know yourself to be One with All There Is and experience that knowingness not with the perception of being alone. For, “aloneness,” by definition, must be in juxtaposition to “other than aloneness.” It matters not whether that aloneness is perceived to be a separation from that which is kindred or that which is alien. When one transcends the level at which one embraces “aloneness”—and the separation that serves as its foundation—one is able to simply Be. And the experience of that Isness is the entry point to the path that leads back to the beginning of the journey—if you choose to go. |