This persistent and rapacious belief in a separate, abiding, self-subsisting “I” and its illusory incompleteness, compounded with story placed upon story in our mind stream that attempts to perpetuate this lie of the “I” is the basis of all our suffering. 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 not, nor can there be, anything truly outside “us”.
