Suffering - Separation



Dr.Doolittle and Harry at The Yogatorium

This photo says "togetherness" to me. This morning I reviewed some of my papers and ran across this statement from Deepak Chopra's The Third Jesus - a teacher of enlightenment.  The separate self does not exist.  All suffering comes from feeling separate.  This is one of 14 principles he presented and is one most relevant to me this morning.  Strange that I sometimes do feel separate and suffer.  Then the question is how do we avoid feeling separate?  The obvious answer to me is by "giving back"  - As St. Francis is credited with saying ".....grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that we receive..........."