“Since then I have met… many people who are always busy, busy, busy, trying to fill every possible moment with work or activity or mind-numbing entertainment – anything to prevent that dreadful moment of silence when they can no longer drown out the cry of their soul. They may succeed, but only for a little while, because the soul is strong. It roars like a restless lion, rattling the bars of the cage the ego has built for it.
As long as the ego insists on breaking the world into separate pieces, setting one against the other, there can be no peace outside, and therefore no peace inside. The soul knows its true identity is bound up with all other souls and the Soul of Souls. As long as it is imprisoned in the ego, the soul moans and cries and is in pain. You feel as if you are at war. The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, is also the word for completeness. The soul is never compete or at peace in the ego. Although the ego thinks it is complete, self-defined, and self-confined, that is an illusion.
The irony is that he who things he is complete and independent of others, lives an illusion and is truly incomplete. However, he who knows he is incomplete and interdependence with others is upon the path toward our completeness.
Hearing the cry of the soul is the beginning of freedom.” pg 121
Endless Light by David Aaron