The physical world we see, feel, and touch; smell and taste, including humans and animals, is merely a representation, an abstraction pointing to something beyond it - or maybe we could say in the background of it. The very meaning of that outside layer of appearance is to represent that which lies beyond it. If we hard-headedly insist that appearance IS the thing in itself, then not only do we kill any dimension of creative depth that the spontaneity of life offers every moment, but we lose meaning in life. When we lose meaning in life, we become vulnerable to mental, emotional, and physical sickness.
We must make time and effort to know ourselves beyond what the social construct has told us to be. We must see this in other beings as well. Looking at a human being's face and thinking that that's all there is to that person, ignores her very depth and character. Surely, there is something deeper to all people than what we are able to perceive with our limited perception. If that weren’t true, then we wouldn’t be able to connect with people that come from different cultural backgrounds than our own.
We are drawn to each other precisely because of feeling and sensing something not of this world in the other person. We seek commonality in the other until we arrive at the door of the inevitable gravitational pull of the ground level of existence, the one common thing that binds us all as the undifferentiated ONE.
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