Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.
In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.
You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness
The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality.