When I experience disconnection it's me against everybody else. You know life is small and life is mean. I become small, I become mean. When I experience life as connection, I'm forced to face the problems that we all share, because the fact is if I'm mad at somebody else for being prejudiced, I then have to say "oh hold it, that stuff is in me too". It makes you realize we're all made of the same stuff, we're all struggling.
I just had the news of this morning and read it about the latest set of crimes and instead of me walling myself off: "I'm not like those bad people"... There're parts of me that could get imbalanced. I could take five bad decisions and find myself in that same place. It's so humbling.