One Or The Other

I tend to drift towards the East when it comes to spiritual views, yet there is one concept I've never been able to fully embrace:  The idea that All is One.

I mean, on the surface it works for me, I can grok the idea that everything is from the same source, that all of the pieces make up a whole in the macro sense as it does in the micro.  The idea that a little bow to another is to acknowledge the divine spark that is universal, that's neat.  I even do more than my share of projecting characteristics on objects both sentient and non.

However, I've never really felt it.  I haven't had the experience that made it all real to me.  I've put my mind in those places where one might expect it to happen, but it just hasn't.  The part of me that sees everything that isn't me as completely separate just wins out in this.

So there you go.