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Separation

That sense of separation -- separation from God, separation from Source, separation from Home -- is the fundamental pain of the soul. Every life pain, when we really trace its tendrils, reaches down to that root pain. The basic belief of separation for the Eternal. Every hunger, every craving, is an attempt to spread a thin layer of pleasure over that pain. Every self-inflicted hurt is an attempt to overpower that great ache with the sharp intensity of the moment. Most actions, when carefully dissected, are an attempt to distract ourselves from that terrible emptiness.

You can see that so much of our life force is spent in avoidance, avoidance of confrontation with that gulf between the individual and the Eternal.

Most people look away, spend all their life running from that canyon of separation. But the mystic sits on the cliff edge and, though frightened, stares endlessly into the great spaceŠ until suddenly an amazing thing happens -- in a flash the emptiness is seen to be not a distance but a connection, a joining. The gulf is itself the bridge spanning the distance, and we discover that we can walk upon it, that there was, in fact, never any separation or distance.

It is the very intensity of our yearning that is finally recognized as the point of connection with the Eternal. And then the pain flips, turning to such sweetness.

Poems with the theme of Separation

	Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend
	Bulleh Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do ?
	Bulleh Shah What a carefree game He plays!
	Hallaj, Mansur al- You Went Away but Remained in Me
	Iraqi, Fakhruddin I want Union with Him
	Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter!
	Kabir The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright:
	Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
	Meher Baba The Beloved's Face
	Novalis Uplifted is the stone
	Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting
	Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Seeking the Source
	Tagore, Rabindranath (84) It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world (from Gitanjali)
	Tsogyel, Yeshe Now until the dualistic identity mind melts and dissolves
	Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God!

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Separation

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