The Antidote To The Fear Of Separation

We all suffer from the ilness of the soul, and our symptoms are remarkably similar. We listen to the chatter in our minds as though it were God himself speaking. We are swept this way and that by our fluctuation emotions, desires, and fancies, as though the tides of the ocean itself were sweeping through our bodies. Everywhere we look, we get confirmation of our separation from the world outside of ourselves. The more we come to know about the vastness of that world, the more we feel small, alone, alienated, fearful of the discrepancy in size between our little body and the very large world.
But Rumi tells us, there's a cure to this illness, a solution to this insoluble dilemma. The consciousness of union, in which the soul experiences its inherent connection and oneness with everything that is, is every bit as real and palpable as is the far more common consciousness of separation. The antidote to the fear of separation is to be found through dissolving into union, and guess what? The medicines to effect this cure have already been ingested. In fact, they have been inside you from the moment you were born, waiting patiently on the shelves for you to have the good sense to take them down, swallow them whole, and let the healing begin.

The Forbidden Rumi