It is far too simplistic to state that you gained your identity of who you consider yourself to be from your parents, religion, or the educational system, and yet most people can certainly recount specific incidences in which their identity was affected in one way or another in one or more of those three environments. But, of course, there’s a lot more going on. Your identity is almost certainly going to be intertwined with reference points outside of yourself.

Because the condition of separation is a dominant condition of most human beings, it’s not hard at all to then think that the spiritual, that God herself, must be somewhere else. The Divine is this but I am that. Limited to the sensory world and habit, it’s no wonder you live a life of addiction to the mental, physical and emotional patterns. It’s like living in a box and the directions to getting out of the box are taped on the outside of the box