Depression

Depression is the ultimate loneliness, the ultimate isolation-perspective. When we understand, and then as a result, feel the unity and connectedness of all life, we can no longer feel depression because there is no "I" to feel it. Ego disappears. All is One.

Unfortunately, much of our particular socio-cultural system, habits, and conditioning pushes us away from that connectivity. We struggle to feel the wholeness among the habits of the Western (especially American) lifestyle. Even when we know some other way of being in our life would be healthier, more fulfilling, it is so much easier to fall into the main-stream, where the current is strongest. We are tired, we don't have the gumption to fight that force. And as we get caught up we become fixated on saving the "me" at all costs, so that all connectivity is a blur. Unity is there of course, but we can't witness is through the fog. Loneliness and lack of faith sets in. And the cycle burns again.

What happens if we step outside the cycle by stepping aside of the bully current? Who are we then? What is our relationship to Life then?