We think we are a pond with water separate from everything else?

Question:But we are also the watershed that feeds us, plus the clouds that bring the water from the ocean. Where do you stop and everything else goes on?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: But we are also the watershed that feeds us, plus the clouds that bring the water from the ocean. Where do you stop and everything else goes on?

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And the ocean is fed by streams created by the clouds that shed the water that fed the pond that is separate from everything else.

So... everything comes around full circle. Everything is related and has an effect on everything else.

Nice to see Nately's having a good time...

We stop at our own experience, which is limited, naturally, by our conformity to a level of scale, however we've become adept at exploring this phenomenon with the sciences of Cosmology and Quantum Theory. Space itself is a tangible concept, defining the background to which all physical phenomena are bound. Time also exists within this background and dictates the way matter takes up space and moves through it.

Some forces seem to permeate beyond our known dimensions of existence. It's difficult for us to interpret because we only really need to understand mass and movement to survive.

What a wonderful question Ross. I've been wondering myself, and have no answer worth sharing.

The world passes through us. Our cells die and are replenished. We die, and what we were becomes other things, some of those living. It appears our consciousness is limited to our senses, and ends when our brain dies, but I do have the oddest feeling of connectedness with the world around me. Perhaps it is a manner of understanding.

I am the ocean, you are the raindrops. We are the same. You raindrops, because of your similar size and location, see yourselves as separate, as units, as individuals. This perception of your selves has been your only reality since you were born in the clouds. You have no other perspective of your selves. As you fall through your short lives here, you see the ocean far below. On a certain level you understand that it and you are one and the same. You envy its magnificence. The thought comes,” I am water too, am I not also part of this magnificence?” Then you realize that you are but an insignificant raindrop. You can only look at that distant ocean in awe. The ocean with its timeless knowledge sees you quite differently. It sees you for what you really are. Its most precious children, bravely returning home to share the experience that ocean as a whole could never have experienced. The ocean has nothing but love for you. Because it understands that it is you, and that you are it. It knows only truth. Until the moment you reunite you can only speculate. The ocean's love for you is unconditional. It holds no foolish thought of punishing you for not falling quite right. It only waits with great patience for your homecoming.

The tiny collisions you had with the other drops on the way down, at the time seemed so significant. Often you feared that if you mingled with them too long you might get to close and in the process even lose your identity. All this because you understood your true identity not! You are ocean, you always were ocean, you always will be ocean. How you currently perceive yourself raindrop, snow flake, puddle, stream, River, or lake matters not. This is all illusion, only perception. You are ocean, you are spirit. You and I are one; we are the All That Is!

Love and blessings Don

We stop when our unceasing Love to Lord keeps flowing like a waterfall.

There is only one source of energy. Everything and everyone is made manifest, of the one substance.
We are always and in all-ways both the Giver and the Receiver.
Love and Light.