“Man is not an isolated island, but we live with the false notion of being an island. We are part of the whole. We are not apart from the whole. We belong to the continent, and the continent is infinite.
The ego is an island,. but your being is not an island. To follow the dictates of the ego is to make a mess of your life, because it takes
you away from the unity of existence.
It is trying to create a separate entity, it is trying to be separate from the unity of existence. This is doomed to fail from the beginning, because it is not in accord with the law of existence. How can the three be separate from the earth? How can the leaf be separate from the tree?
The moment the tree is separate from the earth it is dead. Life is being with the tree. Life is part of the tree.
The larger your ego is, the more it suffocates our being, our life source. The moment you drop the ego, you are free. You are free
from all imprisonments. Then the whole universe belongs to you.
Then all the stars, rivers and mountains are part of you. To be in this unity is to be in joy.”