I'm thinking through my understanding of the chapter 2 on the problem of separateness derived from human conditions and the solutions to it. Problem: Reason > awareness > separateness I understand this. It's like a cell in the body suddenly realizing (possibly mistakenly) that it is an individual, effectively separating itself from the body. Thereafter the cell questions what it and the world are and where they are from, feeling anxious and ashamed of the disorientation. (some may feel extremely free instead?) Two solutions to the problem: 1. Reunion through reasoning - or understanding what we are and where we are from. When such time comes, it'd be a new beginning for us, but we don't know when the time would come. 2. Reunion through loving. This transcends the reasoning gap somehow and we become one again (or not feel separateness). He doesn't really go deeper, so I'm just curious how you interpret the chapter.