16Connection and Relationships
“Despite our habit of seeing ourselves as separate, solid ‘things,' our minds, our beings are not fixed. We exist in a web of relationships.”
Joseph Jaworski
Author and founder of The American Leadership Forum
“Make me one with everything…”
The punchline to the old joke about the Buddhist and the hotdog vendor casts a light on one of life's most persistent illusions. It certainly can seem like we're separate from each other and from the natural world. But, strange as it may seem, there's a way in which the experience of separation is an illusion. In reality, the fact that everything is made of energy means, in a very empirical sense, we are all connected: with one another and with the rest of the universe. ...
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