Trouble with Oneness

Trouble with Oneness

I've been having trouble with oneness. Not so much the concept itself but in letting go of my own feelings of separateness.

I have always been what you might call something of a loner, being more comfortable in my own company than in that of others, although I've had close friendships I've valued greatly there's always been a feeling of being a long way from others, there have been very few people I've known who I've felt much identity with and most of my life has been spent feeling like a different species stuck in a human body.

The concept of oneness is easy to understand intellectually but has been harder to put into practice. Everything is essentially made out of the same stuff, it's all energy in different forms so in that way I can see all is one. However, applying the same idea to people with whom I seem to have little identity was proving difficult.
Until the other day when I noticed a subtle shift in how I was feeling walking down the street. Before I was just a guy walking down a street, which was separate from me, as were all the other things/people in it which went to make up the scene as a whole, today it was more like I was part of the whole street scene. So that got me thinking about stuff, expanding my realization from the street scene into a bigger and bigger picture til eventually I get to the point of realizing everything really is part of the same thing, part of creation, all contributing to the biggest big picture. So we are all just living different aspects of life and adding our experiences to the collective consciousness... At least this is where my thinking has got me to so far.

I think I'm starting to see how this all works now, but I'm open to guidance if I'm way off.

Thanks for reading

Blessings

EB