Pain and its link to separation

Yes, it's especially relevant to me, as I tend to withdrawer into myself, thinking that I can find all of my needed answers within. We need to remain balanced and live in the World, with our feet on the ground, and we can stretch our heads into the clouds at times then too, without floating away, and living in lah lah land, all of the time...LOL.... A good religion, I think, allows us to live practically, wisely in the World, and helps us to grow from this then inwardly too.

@innertalks Oh yes I agree fully with you, we absolutely must balance the inner and the outer. Feet on the ground is mostly me but it is not that I am not aware at all of the inner, I just work a lot to survive so...it is a case of having to face the world as such.

@TiarasOceanView I work part-time from home. I sometimes feel isolated and lonely, in that I face the same four walls constantly. This means at times, I feel that I must escape from this "locked" in position. A walk outside helps, or listening to music, or a meditation, like I did this morning. I listened to some Shamanic drums beating on youtube first too, which really helped to loosen up my mind, and break down some of the fixed thinking patterns running around there, or the created too solid a thought patterns in myself. Yes, we seem to have to work harder and harder these days just to survive in this old World.....

I am certainly restless, and the apparent separation is perhaps the reason as you suggest. Connecting with others breaks down the feeling of such separation, as connecting with any other, is connecting with our creator in a way too.

@Shiva49 Yes, perhaps the only person ever to have not been restless in his peace was Jesus Christ, and yet he certainly had a stressful life too. Look how Luke put this description about him. "He (Jesus) prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood." Luke chapter 22, verse 43.

@innertalks Almost all are restless in varying degrees and that could spur us to achieve more when we use it to find solutions to our problems - siva

Yes I agree ...@innertalks

@smileyhema thanks

Thanks for your comments. I think that the inner meaning always connects to the outer, as its roots are in the outer, but the outer also connects back to the inner, because its very growth depends on this inner too. One reflects the other. Love must live in both directions in movement between both inner and outer to reach its full flow within us maximising our growth in the outer world, and inwardly too. Our inner roots start to root outside of us in the world when we allow ourselves to live from our inner gifts, and so they gain root in the world then too. This is the best and most balanced way of living for anyone.