This persistent and rapacious belief in a separate, abiding, self-subsisting “I” and its illusory incompleteness, compounded with the story placed upon story after story in our mind stream that attempts to perpetuate this lie of the “I” is all our suffering is ever based upon. Contrarily, we are always intrinsically whole and complete because our innate interconnectedness to the ground of being necessitates that we ourselves are that wholeness. There is, nor can there be, anything truly outside “us”.