We're not alone. We are thoroughly interrelated. Everything affects and is affected by everything, everything is shared, and that includes our pain and suffering. I think I felt close to elemental forces and mystery when with loved ones who were close to death, and also at times of reflection/meditation into all existence being an expression of elemental forces (to use the author's term). I think I do some letting go of pretenses and deceits, but who knows. I think of my nature as being an expression of Ultimate Being/Energy/Spirit -- I don't know if I regain memory of that nature -- I think of it more as an awareness I enjoy at times of being such an expression. To suffer means to carry. We humans suffer or carry our limited human perspective and awareness.
On May 3, 2024 David Doane wrote :