(…) the ego is also a barrier. It is the mechanism that allows this first stage of separation to take place, but it usually becomes a barrier because it locks us into a view of ourselves as permanently separate. As we’re there, floating in the amniotic fluid of the womb, we are in a state of undifferentiated union, communion, with the whole universe; there is no separation between me and everything that is. But in order to become fully alive, we have to experience a rupture, a break, a separation from that sense of wholeness, that sense of unconscious communion. We have to experience a break in communion if we are to come to fully conscious communion. And this is a pattern that we may well learn to recognise throughout our life, the dying and the rising involved in all relationships.
( Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
