We have all been taught to believe in a dualistic frame of reference. All of our lives have been built upon this premise--our religions, our families, our financial institutions, our healthcare, our work ethic and our very sense of ourselves. To take a different tack is to give enormous energy to thinking and living differently in a world that requires that we stay the same. Not only the same as we were, but the same as everyone and everything else. And yet this very desire for sameness is a kind of warped attempt at a deep and abiding connection that belies the duality upon which it is based.
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