Story: Farmer's mule takes "the long way" around a field to the barn -- a neighbor asks why -- The farmer answers, "That's the only way he knows how to get there..."
What is "there?" "There" is the quest for peace and fulfillment. We create a race to give ourselves peace and wholeness. We try to do this through external means -- in the hope that a new situation will "fix" us.
Our real existence is drawn from the Light - a Light that we do not see.
We can know the being of another, but we don't know the Being behind our lesser being.
The sun's light is from an undivided source - so is our Source an undivided one.
We can know "another" because of a shared being.
The pain we are in is because we think we can name what is wrong and cure the problem and the pain with thought (plans, etc.)
We are created to "hook up" with wholeness and to reconnect with what is True.
We are meant to be in a "marriage" with our Creator. But we don't live where it is possible to have this Higher Relationship.
This relationship begins with letting go.
We must become attentive to the Truth growing in us to complete the "hook-up" with wholeness.