If we stopped focusing on our separateness and focused instead on ouralready-always connectedness, how might we experience separateness differently?
for - similarity - separateness vs connectedness - Deep Humanity tree metaphor - Just as the many separate branches of the tree can all be traced back to a common trunk, - similarly, all the aspects that separate one person from another can be traced back to a common affective, cognitive and linguistic basis, - otherwise, communication would be impossible